Re: Expiring and keeping marks

[Mike Woolley <mike@ariel.co.uk>]

Jorge Godoy <godoy@ieee.org> writes:

> I use expire to move messages from one folder to another that will
> have a backup on CD. The problem is that when a message is expired, it
> looses all its marks (specially the read mark), making the folder
> appear on the list with unread messages. OK, I can press "c" on that
> folder and have all messages marked as read, but it would be much
> better if I had to do nothing. 
> 
> Is there some way to do that?

I posed the same question on the 27th Sept, but unfortunately didn't
get any replies :-)

I'm glad it's not just me who wants to do this...

I had a look at the code (which is in the function
`nnmail-expiry-target-group') and it just deletes the mails from the
group and then adds them to the expiry-target group, which is why they
appear as unread with none of the original marks. Unfortunately, it
wasn't obvious to me how to change it to copy the marks over though...

Cheers,
Mike