Re: Archiving Inbox

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gnu.emacs.gnus as well.

[posted to both gnu.emacs.gnus and ding list]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I think you can set the expiry-target group parameter to a string,
> which is a group name to move the messages to.
> 
> It's not clear to me how to frob the group parameter to be different
> every month, though.  Anyone?

Anyone have examples of even the first part?  Targeting a directory
to  expiry  old messages into.

A simple example of expiry targeting in gnus info would be a nice
addition.

An example  function to generate a different one every mnth  would be
a very nice addition to gnus info.  

No released gnus or current cvs ognus (this morning 5.8.8) contains an
example of any targeting whatever.  Seems there was a tradition of
having examples of things like that.  Lars and others included many
good examples throughout gnus info.  Can we have some examples for
`targeted expiry'?

These in group param do not work here:

   ((expiry-target . "nnml:target")
     (expiry-wait . 21 ))
   
   ((expiry-target . "nnml:target)
    (total-expire . t )
    (expiry-wait . 14 ))
   
Under the first no expiry happens as I decrease the wait period.

Under the second, expiry happens but no `nnml:target' is created.
Creating `nnml:target' manually doesn't help.

Is the global variable `nnmail-expiry-target' supposed to be set
first?
Or is it also set in Group Params?

Just not enough information at the entry about expiry-target in info.