From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24528 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Max Froumentin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: suggestion for expiry Date: 28 Jul 1999 14:02:24 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162080 9238 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:01:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:01:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA29957 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:06:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAB08241; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 08:03:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 28 Jul 1999 08:04:00 -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 IAA03923 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 08:03:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from shaun.maths.bath.ac.uk (exim@shaun.maths.bath.ac.uk [138.38.100.105]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA29896 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:02:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [138.38.99.49] (helo=scratchy.maths.bath.ac.uk) by shaun.maths.bath.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 119TLq-0003yo-00 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 14:02:31 +0100 Original-Received: from masmef by scratchy.maths.bath.ac.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #2) id 119TLk-0003ou-00 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 14:02:24 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24528 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24528 I like gnus for its ability to wait before deleting expirable mail messages (nnmail-expiry-wait-function, etc.). In my mail groups, expiry length is set to 30 days. When I keep messages ticked for more than a month, and then I mark them expirable, they are deleted immediately. Am I the only one to be bothered by this? May I suggest that expiry be based on another date than the message's 'Date:' field? Rather, another field storing the date of the last time the message was read seems to me more appropriate. What do people think? Max.