>>>>> On 21 Jun 1999 17:36:24 -0700, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> said:

Per> More generally, for mail the natural classification is old
Per> messages, new messages, and deleted messages.  Once I have
Per> deleted a message, I normally don't want to see it.  However, I
Per> would like to be able to see old messages.  If I do plain space
Per> in the Group buffer, I only see new and ticked messages.  But if
Per> I do ^U-space I get *all* the messages, including the expired
Per> ones.  This means that to get what I consider normal behavior (as
Per> in most other MUAs) I must take one of two acrtions for each new
Per> message: Either tick it if I want to save it, or delete it (make
Per> expireable) otherwise.  Sometimes I forget.  This is not very
Per> friendly.

If you want this now, I'll include a patch I've been using for a few
years now that allows you to set the "display" group parameter to
"not-expired", so that it will show you old messages.  This is
essentially what you want.  I've always wanted to be able to make the
display parameter accept a string, something like "O !", which would
be translated into old, new, and ticked, or even better "-E" which
would be the same as not-expired.  However, the hack I put in place
didn't work quickly and I didn't have time to mess with it much more.
Lars didn't want to accept the not-expired patch as is.

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