From: jonkv@ida.liu.se (Jonas Kvarnström)
Subject: Should articles be removed from the cache when they are read?
Date: 12 Feb 1998 21:39:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34t2436dp.fsf@ida.liu.se> (raw)
When I read a cached article, should it be deleted from the cache
automatically?
According to the Gnus manual, when I have an article that I want to
"keep and treasure forever", I should make it persistent, so that it
"just won't be deleted".
Also, according to the Gnus FAQ:
> If you tap * on an article, you have made it persistent. Nothing you
> ever do, except using the M-* command, will remove it from the cache
> where it's stored.
> If you mark an article with the E mark, (ie., made it expirable), it
> will be deleted by the mail backend when it reaches a certain
> age. The persistent copy of the message will not be touched.
Since I had read that, I was a bit confused when I marked about a
hundred articles in an old mailing list archive as persistent and
exited the group, and Gnus told me it was removing the cached
articles. I verified that this really happened - the entire cache
subdirectory for that group had disappeared.
When I read the manual more carefully, I could see that articles are
by default removed from the cache when they were read
(gnus-cache-remove-articles includes 'read). This seems to contradict
the FAQ and the documentation for persistent articles.
next reply other threads:[~1998-02-12 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-12 20:39 Jonas Kvarnström [this message]
1998-02-13 12:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 13:45 ` Jonas Kvarnström
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