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From: Paul Franklin <paul@cs.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Can't delete last article in an nnml group
Date: 27 May 1997 16:06:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <r9q3er8v7jh.fsf@teapotdome.cs.washington.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Paul Stodghill's message of 27 May 1997 15:17:56 -0400

Paul Stodghill isn't the first to be confused by this docstring.
Hopefully, the attached clarifies things.

(Is this really worth a changelog entry?  Lars, you're welcome to
discard it.)

Tue May 27 16:03:12 1997  Paul Franklin  <paul@cs.washington.edu>

	* nnmail.el (nnmail-keep-last-article): clarify docstring

--Paul

--- nnmail.el	1997/05/27 22:58:57	1.2
+++ nnmail.el	1997/05/27 23:02:59
@@ -112,7 +112,9 @@
 
 ;; Added by gord@enci.ucalgary.ca (Gordon Matzigkeit).
 (defcustom nnmail-keep-last-article nil
-  "If non-nil, nnmail will never delete the last expired article in a directory.
+  "If non-nil, nnmail will never delete/move a group's last article.
+It can be marked expirable, so it will be deleted when it is no longer last.
+
 You may need to set this variable if other programs are putting
 new mail into folder numbers that Gnus has marked as expired."
   :group 'nnmail-procmail


  reply	other threads:[~1997-05-27 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-05-27 12:08 Paul Stodghill
1997-05-27 17:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-27 19:17   ` Paul Stodghill
1997-05-27 23:06     ` Paul Franklin [this message]
     [not found]     ` <x7k9kksfxi.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-05-28 11:45       ` Paul Stodghill
1997-05-27 19:12 ` Steven L Baur

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