Re: Expire by moving

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:

> The default expire-target target is simply `delete', while I can
> imagine this addition would add a `move' target (`copy' wouldn't make
> much sense).  For instance, you could use this as group parameters for
> a "private" group where private mail lands:
> 
> ((total-expire . t)
>  (expiry-wait . 28)    ; keep a month old mails around
>  (expiry-target . "nnfolder:really-old-private"))
> 
> The expiry-target parameter could also be a form that specifies the
> group dynamically, so you can do the file-per-month trick described
> under archive section.

I've now done this (for nnml only) and checked it in.  If it does the
trick, then I'll implement this for all the other mail backends as
well. 

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