From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79061 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: deleting email, expiring, mail-source-delete-incoming Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:25:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87wrgsl4il.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <87fwnhbh95.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307809706 786 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2011 16:28:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:28:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27360@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jun 11 18:28:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QVR2l-0000nM-K2 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:28:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QVR1e-0006Od-AS; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:27:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QVR1c-0006OR-9W for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:27:04 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QVR1a-0001NI-BF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:27:03 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QVR1X-0005QE-Ce for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:26:59 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QVR1W-0000Fl-V7 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:26:58 +0200 Original-Received: from p54ac6013.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.172.96.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:26:58 +0200 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by p54ac6013.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:26:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54ac6013.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.;yo.b yq4$p;ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2KJUJ81IeUkFJ6KQG6oIZS+8QMg= X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79061 Archived-At: On Fri, Jun 10 2011, lee wrote: > Iīm wondering what is considered as "handling". "handling" here starts with fetching the mail from `mail-sources' and ends when the mail is stored in the group of your mail back end (nnml, ...) according to your split methods. > Whatīs behind this questions is that Iīm trying to figure out what gnus > does with email I donīt want to keep stored on my harddisk. If I > understood the manual correctly, itīs like this (unless I modify the > default behaviour): > > 1.) Gnus basically does not delete any email. > 2.) To have an email deleted, I should mark it as expired. > 3.) At some time, emails marked as expired and more than a week old > will be deleted. > 4.) Apparently I donīt need to do anything for 3.) to happen, besides > marking emails as expired. Correct. > The default behaviour is modified in that I have set > mail-source-delete-incoming to nil. Does this mean that expired emails > will never be deleted from incoming? Expiry and mail-source-delete-incoming are completely unrelated. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/