From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49719 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Saving some read IMAP messages to a local folder Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:54:15 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87d6mdtk8x.fsf@logicacmg.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044046416 16498 80.91.224.249 (31 Jan 2003 20:53:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18eiAI-0004Hx-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:53:34 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18eiBI-0003HI-00; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:54:36 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:55:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA06796 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:55:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 96178 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2003 20:54:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 96173 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2003 20:54:18 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 31 Jan 2003 20:54:18 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0VKsFeE023563 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:54:16 +0100 Original-To: tiarnan.ocorrain@logicacmg.com (=?iso-8859-15?q?Tiarn=E1n_=D3_Corr=E1in?=) Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030131:tiarnan.ocorrain@logicacmg.com:bcc379a39e84c015 X-Hashcash: 0:030131:tiarnan.ocorrain@logicacmg.com:bcc379a39e84c015 X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030131:ding@gnus.org:691559e9a5e9d456 X-Hashcash: 0:030131:ding@gnus.org:691559e9a5e9d456 In-Reply-To: <87d6mdtk8x.fsf@logicacmg.com> (tiarnan.ocorrain@logicacmg.com's message of "31 Jan 2003 15:24:46 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: FmU60_S;07.b/mq$mN4i[hYDH,9?'f\&F~>ROKqqN6'k$rh#oKV}|(Ol8$)L4`#XB"b|Tnu J"{VKSYBqieg/2&a.0pI2[7A\9*s+=%Zq\^> Hello-- > > my problem is this: our IMAP server has severe quota limitations, and > all too frequently I get an automated rap across the knuckles from the > system admin. > > Is it possible to set a mark in the IMAP inbox for some messages, so > that only those messages are saved in a local folder and deleted from > the server? You can cache them locally forever using * and mark them as expired with E and set up expiring so it is expired on the server after a while. But maybe the expiring code excludes cached articles from being expired, but if it does report back and it can probably be made into user customizable behaviour.