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>>>>> Carson Chittom <carson.chittom@mspb.ms.gov>:

> In my ~/.gnus.el, I've got 

> ;; Make expired messages go to Archive folder
> (setq nnmail-expiry-target "nnimap+MSPB:Archive")

> so I just manually mark older messages as expired.

> What I'd like to do is automatically mark read messages in my Inbox as
> expired, so I don't periodically have to go through and mark, say, a
> hundred of them manually.  Is this possible? 

Yep.

> I looked in the manual at what seemed likely in the index, but nothing
> popped out at me.

total-expire is what you're looking for.

Here's what I've got in the group parameters of my inbox:
 (total-expire . t)
 (expiry-target . "nnimap+myserver:INBOX.archive")

Note: I haven't set expiry-target globally, because it seems like a
      group-specific property...