Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

> So...  I'm slowly moving more and more toward the need for better
> integration with other email readers.  In particular mobile devices.
>
> I consider "gnus" to be the master and everything else as "temporary"
> because emacs is too far away.  I use expiry very very heavily, both
> total and manual depending on the group.
>
> What I want (need) is the ability to be able to mark articles as deleted
> in other places and gnus do the same and then have gnus do its expiary
> process on the deleted articles rather than use a separate expiary
> mark.  Is there a way to change what gnus uses for the expiary mark?
> Did I miss it somehow?
>
> I realize there is a danger of something else expunging a box, but I
> want to handle that configuration elsewhere.  Right now, I have to:
>
> 1) delete elsewhere and then mark as expired later in gnus
> 2) get flooded with expired mail in other interfaces that really
>    shouldn't be shown because they're functionally already marked as
>    deleted by gnus.

I use IMAP.  Then, I have 'd' bound to

(defun gdt-gnus-move-to-trash ()
  (interactive)
  (gnus-summary-move-article nil gdt-trash-newsgroup))

and actually delete messages.  the trash group has total-expire.

I use auto-expire on mailing list groups, but I don't read those with
other clients.  This is based around making it usable to use the iphone
imap client with the same server as gnus.

If I wanted to deal with other groups, I'd think about making gnus
expire based on read marks instead of expirable.