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Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> Will gnus delete mail without an 'E' expiry mark?  Or is t only the expiry
> process that does it?

If you activate total-expire for a group, every read (and unticked)
message is put through the expiry mechanism.

> While on the topic, I have never been clear on the difference between
> auto-expire and total-expire.  Can you maybe explain?

Hmm, I haven't looked at the code, so I can't provide more information
as the manual "(gnus)Expiring Mail":

,----
| In a nutshell, "auto-expire" means that Gnus hits `E' for
| you when you select an article.  And "total-expire" means that Gnus
| considers all articles as expirable that are read.  So, in addition to
| the articles marked `E', also the articles marked `r', `R', `O', `K',
| `Y' and so on are considered expirable.
`----

norbert.