Re: [??] delete garbage

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com>]

"Kai" == Kai Grossjohann writes:
"Colin" == Colin Rafferty writes:

Colin> I am constantly getting mail that I consider garbage, but my
Colin> management thinks is necessary.  I want to delete it
Colin> automatically. [...]

Colin> Does anyone know a way to trash these messages directly?
Colin> Would I have a faster time if I used an nnfolder on that
Colin> group?

Kai> I think there's a way, but it's DANGEROUS!

Kai> You could (carefully!) set up an nnmail-split-methods that matches all
Kai> mails *except* the trash ones.  If there is no entry in
Kai> nnmail-split-methods for those mails, they will be quickly routed to
Kai> the bit bucket.  I think.

I have done this.  In fact, I realized that I could do this pretty
easily by switching to `nnmail-split-fancy' (which seems faster than
nnmail-split-methods).  However, the function nnmail-split-methods
does not allow null lists.

For fancy splitting, it will post to the group list ("bogus"), and for
non-fancy splitting, it will just post to the last method (whether the
test matches or not).

By nature, I am a dangerous person.  If I want to shoot myself in the
foot, I want Gnus to help me do it (or at least let me set a variable
to allow me to do it).

I am cross-mailing this to gnus-bug.

Gnus v5.2.25; nntp 4.0; nnml 1.0; nnfolder 1.0
XEmacs 19.14 [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.4) of Sun Jun 23 1996 on xemacs

-- 
Colin