From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4147 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: 0.16 Mail Lossage Alert Date: 29 Nov 1995 18:55:25 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <199511271710.4396.surt.ifi.uio.no@ifi.uio.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144937 28666 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:15:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:15:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA12259 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 11:47:40 -0800 Original-Received: from gymir.ifi.uio.no (4867@gymir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.80.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 18:55:26 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by gymir.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 18:55:26 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: steve@miranova.com's message of 27 Nov 1995 12:06:28 -0800 Original-Lines: 25 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4147 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4147 steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) writes: > Lars> So your important mail might be appended to some > Lars> mail in your mail.junk group that you have a five second > Lars> expiry on.) > > I thought expiration only worked on an integral number of days, > rounded. At least that is how it appears to behave. Yes. But if you have expiry set to -1, Gnus will expire the article the first chance it gets, which might be 5 seconds after it receives the mail. > While on the topic of expiration, (after experimenting with the > nnmail-expiry-wait-function), I think I'd like something that I can > tie into the group parameters to feed that function. I have a very > simple-minded one -- nothing more than a big cond. Yes, expiry is something that one probably should be able to specify in the group parameters. What did you have in mind? `(expiry . 5)' to override `nnmail-expiry-wait-function' for that group or something more complex? -- Home is where the cat is.