For my nnimap folders, currently I have articles automatically marked as expireable. Many folders have a pretty high expire value. Then I found I was ticking way to much, so I set display-all. That's okay, but then opening that folder takes longer and longer. So now I've got gnus-large-newsgroup to a manageable size, and when I open the folder, just pick a number that I can handle. A bit crude, but I haven't settled on a perfect solution yet, if one exists. Actually, the business of displaying a subset (like the x most recent messages) is not new. I've seen that in other mail clients, and generally it can be quite convenient, especially if it is a huge folder and a slow link. Usually such clients had a button to get the next X number of messages, as well as possibly a button to get all the messages. When I need to read the entire folder, I'll do C-u SPC or if I'm in the group, C-u M-g. Though, selecting the number of message each time is getting tedious. I just haven't had time to try another way of managing mail. I think the problem is that reading mail can at times be at odds with reading news, which the default behavior I like. >>>>> On 23 Feb 2000 23:05:23 +0200, >>>>> Jussi Yli-Urpo (jy) writes: jy> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: >> Maybe you should tell Gnus not to mark the article at all, when you >> select it. Then you can use `d' to mark it as read manually. jy> Yes, that's the way I do it at the moment in all my mail jy> groups and I pretty satisfied with it. But of course I'd be jy> willing try also something little bit more automatic but jy> still safe way to mark them read. I just don't know if it's jy> possible... jy> -- jy> Jussi.