From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15652 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: total count after expiring emails Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:53:55 -0700 Message-ID: <87629dvvlo.fsf@psinom.home> References: <44a9yptfzs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <44zk6prppa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <87a9ypvvum.fsf@psinom.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343156068 1982 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2012 18:54:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:54:28 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 24 20:54:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1StkFU-0000u1-FG for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:54:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52777 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StkFT-0003o9-UK for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:54:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57761) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StkFO-0003m0-1Q for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:54:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StkFM-0002H7-Sx for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:54:17 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StkFM-0002Gr-Mi for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:54:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1StkFJ-0000ln-MO for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:54:13 +0200 Original-Received: from s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net ([70.67.174.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:54:13 +0200 Original-Received: from prad by s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:54:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hLV6d4SdTnoAq00pcDQv+KAJiFk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:15652 Archived-At: prad writes: > Lowell Gilbert writes: > >> One thing you can do is move all of the remaining e-mails into the group >> they're already in. >> > that sounds like a neat idea! > > i just tried it for a single article, but before i take the big plunge > let me be sure i know what i'm doing. > > first go into my INBOX. > then select the all articles and do a mark region M P r > then do operation on marked articles M-& B m into my INBOX > > that's the way to do it? > the only problem seems to be that the count keeps increasing as i move the articles in to INBOX. so possibly what i should be doing is 1. moving things into a temporary group 2. emptying my existing INBOX 3. moving everything from the temporary group back into the INBOX or is there a better way? -- in friendship, prad