From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47634 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wes Hardaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: definitely loosing mail: total expire deletes unread (but seen) mail Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:23:35 -0800 Organization: Network Associates Laboratories Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037111049 10831 80.91.224.249 (12 Nov 2002 14:24:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18BbxY-0002oL-00 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:24:08 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18BbxW-0003rZ-00; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:24:06 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:24:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA05242 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:24:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 15542 invoked by alias); 12 Nov 2002 14:23:41 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15537 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2002 14:23:40 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-66-127-127-227.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net (HELO localhost.localdomain) (@66.127.127.227) by gnus.org with SMTP; 12 Nov 2002 14:23:40 -0000 Original-Received: (from hardaker@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gACENZt02794; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:23:35 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #qW^}a%m*T^{A:Cp}$R\"38+d}41-Z}uU8,r%F#c#s:~Nzp0G9](s?,K49KJ]s"*7gvRgA SrAvQc4@/}L7Qc=w{)]ACO\R{LF@S{pXfojjjGg6c;q6{~C}CxC^^&~(F]`1W)%9j/iS/ IM",B1M.?{w8ckLTYD'`|kTr\i\cgY)P4 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.5 (brussels sprouts, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47634 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47634 I've suspected for a long time that either my understanding of the total-expiry process is either flawed, or that total-expiry itself is flawed. Specifically, I have total-expiry set on a good number of "mailing-list" boxes where I treat them like news groups: IE, if they are read then I'm done with them. However, many times I'll read an article and then M-u it to mark it as "unread" so that it'll stay around. But it doesn't. After the expiry time is over, even those disappear. I thought that total-expiry is not supposed to delete unread articles? They have been "seen" and have lost the ./N marks, but they were definitely missing the read mark. -- "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." -- Terry Pratchett