Re: unticking ticked articles in nnml groups

[Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu>]

>>>>> "mb" == Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov> writes:

mb> Suppose I tick, `!', a bunch of articles in an nnml group.  [...]  I
mb> then go back and mark as read, via `d', [...]

mb> I thought Gnus would then mark them as expirable and thus subject them
mb> to the expiry process, but it doesn't. It marks them as old, `O', [...]

[...]

mb> If so, is there some option (or group of options) that will give me my
mb> desired behavior?

I use total-expire and don't have this problem.  The articles go away when
they're supposed to.  I think total-expire is the way to go, if you're
willing to accept that everything you read will be expirable (unless you
tick it or mark it dormant); you won't see the explicit 'E' mark.
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