Re: archiving old mail

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr> writes:
>> Is there a way to make Gnus move the old (say, 30 days old) mail I
>> sent or received to some archive groups with the year+month digits
>> appended ?
>
> Group properties will do most of this for you.  I do this kind of
> expiry for quite a few groups.  nnml is my gnus-select-method (nntp is
> secondary) and I expire my group "personal.general" to its archive
> companion this way:
>
> ((total-expire . t)
>  (expiry-wait . 30)
>  (expiry-target . "archive.current.personal.general"))
>
> expiry-target is new in Oort.  Your challenge is to find a way to make
> the value of expiry-target into an eval -- I don't know if that's
> possible or not in the current scheme.

`expiry-target' can be a function, it will be called narrowed to the
message in question.