From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24538 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Falkner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: suggestion for expiry Date: 28 Jul 1999 10:25:08 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162088 9290 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:01:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:01:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03826 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:29:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAB09728; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:25:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:26:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05708 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:26:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from lukla.Sun.COM (lukla.Sun.COM [192.18.98.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03769 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:25:03 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from centralmail1.Central.Sun.COM ([129.147.62.10]) by lukla.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27044; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:24:56 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from muzzy.Central.Sun.COM (muzzy.Central.Sun.COM [129.152.74.150]) by centralmail1.Central.Sun.COM (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1/ENSMAIL,v1.6) with ESMTP id KAA02643; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:24:52 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from samf@localhost) by muzzy.Central.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id KAA100899; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:25:09 -0600 (MDT) Original-To: Max Froumentin In-Reply-To: Max Froumentin's message of "28 Jul 1999 14:02:24 +0100" Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24538 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24538 Max Froumentin 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