From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25480 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Kornick Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Expiry Date: 27 Sep 1999 17:05:13 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <7t1ogeo5fsl.fsf@fly.srk.fer.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162857 14169 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:14:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:14:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Adam Kornick , Toni Drabik Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA07476 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:04:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB26362; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:04:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:04:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA24978 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:04:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from ws-122.whgrp.com (ws-122.whgrp.com [140.186.63.122]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA07459 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:02:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from akornick@localhost) by ws-122.whgrp.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id RAA10382; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:05:14 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: AMK Original-Lines: 44 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25480 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25480 >>>>> "Toni" == Toni Drabik writes: [snip] Toni> First of all, correct parameters are `auto-expire' and Toni> `total-expire', not `auto-expiry' and `total-expiry'. [snip] Toni> Expiring mail is in details explained in Gnus info file Toni> (under ``Select Methods'' -> ``Getting Mail'' -> ``Expiring Toni> Mail'' node) and also discussed in Kai's mail tutorial at Toni> rtmund.de/pub/src/emacs/tutorials/>. Toni, You were dead on. Solution works like a charm. The problem is in the manual (excerpted below)... File: gnus, Node: Group Parameters, Next: Listing Groups, Prev: Foreign Groups, Up: The Group Buffer Group Parameters ================ The group parameters store information local to a particular group: [snip] Use the `G p' command to edit group parameters of a group. Also *note Topic Parameters::.. Here's an example group parameter list: ((to-address . "ding@gnus.org") (auto-expiry . t)) <-------note the use of auto-expiry instead of auto-expire Thanks, AK