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
next prev parent 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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