From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5609 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: aharon@healdb.matat.health.gov.il (Aharon (Al) Schkolnik) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Catching up Mail Groups Date: 20 Mar 1996 07:39:53 +0300 Organization: Israel Ministry Of Health Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.44) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146188 836 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:36:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:36:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA02812 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:02:52 -0800 Original-Received: from healdb.matat.health.gov.il (healdb.matat.health.gov.il [192.115.16.132]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 05:40:41 +0100 Original-Received: by healdb.matat.health.gov.il; id AA16416; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 07:39:54 +0300 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Kees de Bruin's message of 22 Jan 1996 14:41:02 +0100 Original-Lines: 50 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5609 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5609 Hi all. I really like gnus. (Shall I say that a few more times before I start complaining ? ;-) ). My biggest complaint is the way read articles are handled in mail groups. I use : (setq gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups ".*:mail\..*") which means that if I mark articles with E, they get expired. That is a-good-thing. The problem is that I frequently forget, and mark articles with d (that is what I'm used to doing in NNTP groups), or simply want to catch-up the the group (with c). Then, the articles are not expired. They stay around (invisibly) until I get around to painstakenly cleaning them up by entering the group with C-u , and then doing E down-arrow E down-arrow ad-nasuem. This is a-bad-thing. So, I tried: (setq gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups ".*:mail\..*") This, I think, caused the desired effect of expiring the articles. Although, quite frankly, I don't really understand the difference between auto-expirable, and total-expirable. Anyway, the performance hit was totally unacceptable - it took many, many seconds each time I left a mail group (Expiring articles ........). This is a-bad-thing. What I, and I believe many others, want is for articles in mail groups which are not marked to be saved (u command), and which are read or deleted, to be deleted after the expiration period. I guess what this all means is that we want deletion (or whatever is done by catching-up, the d command, etc.) to be treated as expiration. Of course, this must be efficient. Thanks for your attention. -- The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | Aharon@Matat.Health.Gov.IL is great, and the Master of the house is | impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2 |