[PATCH] Expiry-target for nnmh

[janneke@gnu.org]

Hi,

My first patch to Gnus implements expiry-target for the nnmh backend.

    http://appel.lilypond.org/software/gnus-5.8.7.jcn1.diff

Is expiry-target widely used?  I'm new to Gnus; and sometimes a bit
confused about what one would actually use.  The auto-expiry feature
of read articles looks very promising, but it's not exactly what I
want.  Before, using plain mh and scripts, I used to move only mail
that I had answered semi-automatically to my archives, so that my
read-but-unanswered-messages would stay in my inboxes for
manual-archiving.  Can this be easily automated with Gnus?

While this was fine for personal mail, it was maybe not the perfect
solution for mailinglist-mail (answering bug-reports).  With Gnus, it
would be possible to improve on this, by auto-expiring only mail that
has been read, and of which the tread is longer than 1.  This way,
unanswered bug reports/help requests won't expire untill they're
answered by someone.  How do you handle this, or does this require
some more hacking?

Greetings,
Jan.

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