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Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> I have a group that is set up for auto-expire.  I have a few questions:
>
> 1) This means that a 'catchup' will automatically mark as 'E' all unread
>    messages and that all read messages are also marked as 'E'?

No, only unmarked messages will be marked expirable.

> 2) If I want one of my read messages to NOT be marked as 'E' what do I do?
>    Is the 'd' command the correct thing to do?
>
> 3) I have been marking for cache ('!') all messages that I do not want to
>    lose.  Is this correct?  Or will the answer to (2) ensure that the mes=
sage
>    remains?

Both works. The choice depends on whether you want the messages to be
shown in the message buffer by default or not.

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