Re: some mail annoyances [deleting mail]

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Jaap-Henk" == Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:

Jaap-Henk> But if you do not want to auto-expire certain groups (like
Jaap-Henk> I do not like to auto-expire my inbox), then I agree with
Jaap-Henk> Per that the most common command when reading mail is
Jaap-Henk> (generalizing slightly :-) "do something with this message
Jaap-Henk> and go to the next one" where in gnus, do-something is
Jaap-Henk> either a mark of some kind, or moving the article. Moving
Jaap-Henk> does go to the next unread message; marking does not. It
Jaap-Henk> would be nice if all mark commands had a twin that moves to
Jaap-Henk> the next or previous (un)read article (I think Kai
Jaap-Henk> mentioned this a few days ago), or a variable
Jaap-Henk> gnus-mark-commands-should-move with possible values nil,
Jaap-Henk> forward, forward-unread, backward, backward-unread

Jaap-Henk> Jaap-Henk

Still running qgnus, here's what I do:

(defun MERLYN-gnus-expiry-wait-function (ng)
  "give list.clip a short wait, other lists 7 days, and others marked E 1"
  (cond ((string-match "^list\\.clip" ng) 1)
	((string-match "^list" ng) 7)
	(t 1)))
(setq
 nnmail-expiry-wait-function 'MERLYN-gnus-expiry-wait-function
 gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups "^nnml:list\\."
 )

And I bring all my mailing lists into nnml:list.ding, nnml:list.p5p,
etc, where the default is to toss seen articles after 7 days.  Other
mail groups are expire only when I ask for it.

Then it's very visual to me that I can just page forward like a
newsgroup in anything called "list.", but I need to hit "E" in
anything that isn't.  Occasionally, I get it backwards. It does no
harm to hit E in a list.* group, but I can sometimes lose from view
things in my inbox (not a list.*), so I use ^U = occasionally.

This has worked quite well for the two years I've been doing it.

Hopefully, the names of these functions have not changed in terry gnus.
(Which I'm still threatening to switch to Very Soon Now.)

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