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[2001:569:7c19:6000:c07c:8f1e:7df7:6e3a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w22sm9819790pfq.193.2020.06.13.12.57.55 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:57:55 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rogers To: Gnus mailing list Subject: Re: I want to expire some even if unread References: <875zbv4emo.fsf@hillenius.net> <875zbvlyng.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:57:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: <875zbvlyng.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Sat, 13 Jun 2020 17:26:59 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed List-ID: Precedence: bulk Eric S Fraga writes: > On Saturday, 13 Jun 2020 at 02:35, davidandrewrogers@gmail.com > wrote: >> The manual states more than once that >> gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups >> only expires messages that have been read; my question is about >> expiring *all* messages, even the unread ones, when they get >> old. If >> gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups can be made to expire both read >> and >> unread together, then that's great. (but please tell me how) > > I use "M H" and "M h" (selective catch-up, sorting the group by > date, > say) all the time to catch up many articles without reading > them. My > understanding is that these are then marked as having been read > and, > with the setting that others have noted, will then participate > in the > expiry process. That makes sense. And the responses so far are tending to indicate to me that the answer to my question is essentially "No, Gnus won't do what you're asking about, try something different". Does that seem accurate? (since my question was specifically about deleting old unread messages automatically, with zero need for intervention) -- David Rogers