Expiring Old Messaes

Expiring Old Messaes

[Jake Colman]

I recently discovered the joys of auto-expiry and have configured a numbr of
groups to auto-expire as needed.  The problem is that some of these groups
contain hundreds of read messages.  How  do I automagically mark them as
expirable without manually marking or rereading them?

TIA!

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Re: Expiring Old Messaes

[Kai Großjohann]

On 10 Nov 2000, Jake Colman wrote:

> I recently discovered the joys of auto-expiry and have configured a
> numbr of groups to auto-expire as needed.  The problem is that some
> of these groups contain hundreds of read messages.  How do I
> automagically mark them as expirable without manually marking or
> rereading them?

I'm afraid you have to mark them manually.  Try setting
gnus-summary-goto-unread to nil, then you should be able to do `4 7 1
1 E' to mark 4711 articles as expirable.  After marking as expirable,
you can then set gnus-summary-goto-unread back to the old value.

Hm.

Or does it work to say `4 7 1 1 M-x
gnus-summary-put-mark-as-expirable-next RET', regardless of the
variable value?

kai
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