Re: mail vs news

[Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com>]

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Xavier Maillard <lists.emacs.gnus@xavier.maillard.im> writes:

> I know emails and news are two different beasts outside Gnus Towers but I am
> looking for informations explaining how these two /beasts/ are viewed inside
> Gnus -i.e what are the mail-centric-features vs nntp-features.
>
> For example, does (adaptative) scoring work for both world ? Does expiration
> work asame ? etc.

Basically email is a special case of news, and most things work
similarly.  I don't use adaptive scoring, but I use the usual scoring
stuff all the time in nnimap groups.  I use topic mode in the groups
buffer.  I also use expiration, but auto-expire and total-expire, in
nnimap groups.  In this case the messages (articles, gnus calls them)
are actually removed from IMAP server.  The only funny part is that
expiration happens when exiting a group, so it's somewhat async and in
arrears, but in terms of keeping messages around for a while and then
pruning, it works for me.

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