Re: Expiry

[Jody Klymak <jklymak@apl.washington.edu>]

Hi Adam,

I'm no wiz on these things, but is it correct to set both auto-expiry
and total-expiry to t?  I bet you really should only use one or the
other.  I personally use total-expiry, with a seven day grace pesiod
on mailing lists and no expiry on personal mail.  So for this mailing
list I have

;;; Editing the group parameters for `nnimap+kraken:mail/ZIn.xemacs-nt'.
;; Type `C-c C-c' after you've finished editing.

((uidvalidity . "936820603")
 (total-expire . t)
 (expiry-wait . 7.0))

i.e. nothing newer than seven days is expired.  

While for my personal mail boxes I have

((uidvalidity . "902853515")
 (visible . t))

So nothing is expired unless I explicitly set it so.  I also set d to
equal E since it makes more sense to me - in my .gnus:

;; remap d to E
(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map "d" 'gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable)

Stuff I want to expire gets a "d", stuff I want to keep seeing gets a
"!", and stuff I want to keep, but not see all the time gets no
action.  Of course, this means I have to do a little cleaning in my
personal mailbox once in a while, but thats OK. 

Hope this is of help,

Jody

>>>>> "AMK" == Adam Kornick <akornick@whgrp.com> writes:

    AMK> I have been attempting to automagically delete old messages
    AMK> from mailing lists that I read with pgnus 0.97.  I have
    AMK> edited the group parameter buffer (`G p') as follows.

    AMK> --- ;;; Editing the group parameters for `nnfolder:gnus'.  ;;
    AMK> Type `C-c C-c' after you've finished editing.

    AMK> ((auto-expiry t) (total-expiry t)) ---

    AMK> However, read articles are not automatically marked as
    AMK> expired, and read articles are not expired, so it seems that
    AMK> neither variable setting is having an affect.  Clearly I
    AMK> either do not understand expiration or have made an obvious
    AMK> mistake or both.  Anybody who can help me set up expiry to
    AMK> remove read messages without marking them by hand as
    AMK> expirable, I would appreciate your help.

    AMK> Thanks,

    AMK> -- Adam Kornick Coastal Engineer Woods Hole Group

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Jody Klymak                         APL/School of Oceanography,
Doctoral Candidate                  University of Washington
mailto:jklymak@apl.washington.edu   (206)-685-9080
http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/grads/jklymak/