help expiring mail articles

help expiring mail articles

[Andreas Kaempf]

hi all...

well i finally have mail working the way i need it with the exception
of getting the expired articles removed once they have been marked...

now when i start up gnus i start it up as gnus-no-server...

i then have the following in my .gnus file:

(setq gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups "xemacs")

(setq nnmail-expiry-wait-function
	(lambda (group)
	  (cond ((string= group "xemacs")
	          'immediate)
                (t
                 6))))
 

now when i start up gnus (with the no server option) i find that all
articles in the xemacs group are marked as "E" expirable...

now when i quit out of the group and the server and enter back in i do
not see the articles as being deleted from the xemacs directory..

so i am assuming i am doing something wrong here...

what i want to so only keep the ticked articles in the xemacs folder
and not to save the "E" expired articles for any period..

also what would the syntax be to mark all articles in all the nnmail
groups as "E" expirable instead of having to emter each group in a
list... is there a way to do this....

thanks in advance..
andreas
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Re: help expiring mail articles

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Kaempf <andreas@sccon.com> writes:

> what i want to so only keep the ticked articles in the xemacs folder
> and not to save the "E" expired articles for any period..

Run all the expirable articles through the expiry process with the
`C-c M-C-x' command.

> also what would the syntax be to mark all articles in all the nnmail
> groups as "E" expirable instead of having to emter each group in a
> list... is there a way to do this....

Use total-expire groups instead.

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