Re: suggestion for expiry

[Sam Falkner <samf@central.sun.com>]

Max Froumentin <masmef@maths.bath.ac.uk> writes:

> I like gnus for its ability to wait before deleting expirable mail
> messages (nnmail-expiry-wait-function, etc.).  In my mail groups,
> expiry length is set to 30 days. When I keep messages ticked for
> more than a month, and then I mark them expirable, they are deleted
> immediately. Am I the only one to be bothered by this?

This bothers me too.

> May I suggest that expiry be based on another date than the
> message's 'Date:' field? Rather, another field storing the date of
> the last time the message was read seems to me more appropriate.
> What do people think?

I think that `the time it was marked expirable' would be best; or,
have gnus figure out `the last time it was read' via some method other
than atime (i.e. an X-last-read header that it maintains).  I'd hate
to have a cron job that did greps in your folder keep articles from
ever expiring.

- Sam