From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48225 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: definitely loosing mail: total expire deletes unread (but seen) mail Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:24:31 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041110974 2871 80.91.224.249 (28 Dec 2002 21:29:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 21:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from util1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18SOWR-0000jr-00 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:29:31 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by util1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18SORw-0003pA-00; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 15:24:52 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 28 Dec 2002 15:25:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA06637 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 15:25:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18SORe-0006Xu-00 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:24:34 +0100 Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1041110674 24032 80.91.231.2 (28 Dec 2002 21:24:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Dec 2002 21:24:34 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Stereolab's _ABC Music (2)_: "Metronomic Underground" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: |J writes: > Specifically, I have total-expiry set on a good number of > "mailing-list" boxes where I treat them like news groups: IE, if they > are read then I'm done with them. However, many times I'll read an > article and then M-u it to mark it as "unread" so that it'll stay > around. But it doesn't. After the expiry time is over, even those > disappear. `M-u' doesn't set any mark -- it removes all readedness marks, thereby making it unread again. And if you then `C' or the like, it'll become read again, and will be expired. I think you might want `u' or `?' instead. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen