Re: Expire by moving

[Andrew Hobson <ahobson@eng.mindspring.net>]

On 01 Apr 2000 12:38:26 -0500, Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> said:

> So I thought that it would be nice if gnus had a feature to expire
> messages not by /deleting/ them, but by /moving/ them to some
> arbitrary group. This way it would be possible to have the name of
> such group assigned sensibly (like for expample I am dynamically
> assigning group names to `gnus-message-archive-group').

I asked the same question a couple of months ago.  AFAIK, it isn't
possible.  So what I did was have all of my mail crossposted to two
groups: the archive group and the "usual" group.  I only expire the
"usual" group.

I'm not using IMAP, so I do something like:

(defun ahobson-incoming-group ()
  (format-time-string "incoming.mail.%Y-%m"))

(setq nnmail-split-fancy
      '(&
        (: ahobson-incoming-group)
;; non crossposted mail groups
        (|
         ("from" "fred@bedrock.com" "guys")
         ("from" "wilma@bedrock.com" "gals"))))

(setq gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups
      "guys\\|gals")

Drew