From: David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>
To: Gnus mailing list <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: I want to expire some even if unread
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:07:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s0ev9jo2ct8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kre2lis.fsf@hillenius.net> (=?utf-8?Q?=22G=C4=B3s?= Hillenius"'s message of "Sun, 14 Jun 2020 08:45:31 +0200")
Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:
> On 13 June 2020 13:28 David Rogers, wrote:
>
>> Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:
>>
>>>> The manual states more than once that
>>>> gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups
>>>
>>> Hm OK. But /mine/ says:
>>>
>>> Groups in which to automatically mark read articles as
>>> expirable.
>>
>> Exactly, that's what I said - I'm trying to automatically mark
>> UNread
>> articles as expirable (when they get old).
>
> doh! yes, oops you're right. It works because of the combination
> with
> gnus-topic-catchup-articles; which effectively marks all
> articles as
> read.
I've wondered about modifying a hook so that it will, just for my
chosen groups, automatically catch up to "x" days ago each time I
exit that group. Does that sound like a reasonable thing to try?
Or a dumb idea?
--
Thanks
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-18 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-13 0:36 David Rogers
2020-06-13 7:19 ` Gijs Hillenius
2020-06-13 9:35 ` davidandrewrogers
2020-06-13 9:56 ` Gijs Hillenius
2020-06-13 16:26 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-06-13 19:57 ` David Rogers
2020-06-13 21:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-06-14 5:47 ` Andrew Cohen
[not found] ` <87pna32sq0.fsf@hillenius.net>
[not found] ` <s0ek10aiubj.fsf@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <874kre2lis.fsf@hillenius.net>
2020-06-18 23:03 ` David Rogers
2020-06-18 23:07 ` David Rogers [this message]
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