From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23471 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jaap-Henk Hoepman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: some mail annoyances Date: 23 Jun 1999 08:47:39 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <545bte8tcdc.fsf@dusk1.icd.teradyne.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161197 2158 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:46:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:46:37 +0000 (UTC) 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 CAA29312 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 02:57:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAB12713; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 01:48:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 23 Jun 1999 01:49:01 -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 BAA21651 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 01:48:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl (utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl [130.89.10.247]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA29234 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 02:47:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from hypnos.cs.utwente.nl (hypnos.cs.utwente.nl [130.89.15.9]) by utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA29172 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:47:43 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: from utip151.cs.utwente.nl by hypnos.cs.utwente.nl (8.8.8+Sun/csrelay-Sol1.4/RB) id IAA18901; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:47:41 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from hoepman@localhost) by utip151.cs.utwente.nl (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA02318; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:47:39 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Vin Shelton's message of "22 Jun 1999 12:43:11 -0400" X-Face: #U;T;~,y.iVz7!wB(gVzSj:j}x-tZr\v-PQU}''7h^>jaAM'vw1KA83N5/gN~kcktG%,>Q>""S?Fg`&U80!Vg=)El,s/W)W^ Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070088 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.88) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23471 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23471 On 22 Jun 1999 12:43:11 -0400 Vin Shelton writes: > OK, based on yesterday's advice, I'm now trying out expiry. Just to > be absolutely clear: I'm using auto-expiry and when I want to preserve > an article and keep it from being reaped by the expiry process, I'm > using 'd'. Does this preserve the article, or will it magically > disappear after the expiry time has lapsed, even though the 'E' mark > has gone away. That's exactly what I did: I've set all expirable mail to expire immediately when exiting a group (setq nnmail-expiry-wait 'immediate) For some groups (mailinglists like ding for instance), I've set the group parameters to ((auto-expire . t)) such that all articles are marked expirable when I read them. Marking them read with `d' unmarks them expirable: when I leave the group and enter again these articles are still there and marked as old `O'. To make sure that I do not expire articles that I would like to keep after reading them, I have made sure that all expirable articles are highlighted (using the same face as deleted articles) as a clearly visible cue that these articles will be deleted when I exit the group. For this I added the following to my .gnus.el (load "gnus-sum.elc") (setq gnus-summary-highlight (cons '((= mark gnus-expirable-mark) . gnus-summary-cancelled-face) gnus-summary-highlight) ) Note the loading of gnus-sum.elc before prepending the necessary face to gnus-summary-highlight. If omitted, gnus complains about gnus-summary-highlight not being defined and will not start up. Jaap-Henk -- Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Computer Scientist | Sure! We've eaten off the silver Email: jhh@xs4all.nl, Tel: +31 50 5255546 | (when even food was against us) WWW: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jhh | - Nick Cave