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From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: expiring with gnus-parameters
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 08:35:51 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gh9ek4w.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvvymbac.fsf@newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:37:31 -0400")

On Mon, Jul 01 2013,Harry Putnam wrote:

> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

[snipped 15 lines]

> You are in luck Sivaram... I posted my question on the ding list and
> got this nifty reply from Eric Abrahamsen
>
> From gmane.emacs.gnus.general
>   Message-ID: <87fvvypesr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
>
> Harry wrote:
>> The result I'm after is to have certain groups maintain a specific
>> backlog of messages like 90 days worth or whatever, and to
>> periodically total-expire them down to the actual 90 day backlog,
>> without me actually doing any intervention.
>
> Eric replied:
>> Does 'C-c C-M-X' (`gnus-group-expire-all-groups') do the trick? You
>> could put that in a hook to be called when gnus is started or stopped...


Thank you Harry and Eric.



 sivaram
 -- 

      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-02  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-28  0:35 Harry Putnam
2013-06-28  4:10 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2013-07-01 17:37   ` Harry Putnam
2013-07-02  3:05     ` Sivaram Neelakantan [this message]

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