Re: Renumbering aricles in mail folders?

[jdc@chow.mat.jhu.edu (Dan Christensen)]

Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@image.dk> writes:
> Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> > I use the expiry mechanism only as a security
> > mechanism -- sometimes I find out a day later that I shouldn't have
> > deleted that mail and with an expiration time of a week I can get it
> > back.  
> 
> Actually, IMHO, that feature would be a good deal more useful if the
> expiration time was from the moment the article was expired, and not
> from arrival time.  I've lost a couple of mails I shouldn't have
> because I was a bit too quick on the E and q keys.

I agree with Lars, here.  His suggested change would be helpful.

What I'd *really* like is to be able to mark an article as expirable
on a certain date.  For example, the keystroke `E' could take a number
of days as a prefix and add a header to the article that says, for
example, "expire me on April 13, 1998".  The default number of days
would be nnmail-expiry-wait, and this number would be added to the
current date.  

Dan

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Dan Christensen
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