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Hi,

I've been using `nnmail-expiry-target' to expire old mails to archive
groups and it works a treat, except that the archived articles do not
have their marks preserved. This is rather annoying, as I end up with
lots of unread groups of messages I've already read :-)

I had a look at the code and all `nnmail-expiry-target-group' does is 

...
(unless (eq target 'delete)
  (gnus-request-accept-article target nil nil t)))

Which seems to explain what I've observed.

Does anyone know of a way to have the expiry process preserve the
original marks?

Thanks,
Mike