Re: expiring mail?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

On 21 Mar 2001, Nick Papadonis wrote:

> 1) When doing a C-U in the group buffer, why does gnus say I have SO
> MANY messages in a group?  I know there arn't close to the amount
> stated.

Holes in article number sequence.  You can compress the sequence by
moving all articles from a group into the same group.

Gnus uses an estimate based on first and last article number because
of efficiency: this data can be had from an NNTP server very quickly,
and the exact number is hard to get.

> 2) Is there a simple way to expire all articles marked 'O'?  Like a
> function to call inside the summary buffer?  I guess total expire
> doesn't work on 'O'-old articles?

You can use the limiting commands (start with `/') to view exactly the
articles you want to expire (mark as expirable?).  Then you can use `M
P a' to mark all these articles as processable, then `E' or `M-& E' to
mark them expirable.

total-expire does work on `O' articles because they are read.  See the
node on read vs unread articles in the info file.

kai
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