From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16363 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: expiring with gnus-parameters Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 08:35:51 +0530 Message-ID: <877gh9ek4w.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87ppv79inb.fsf@newsguy.com> <878v1unacz.fsf@gmail.com> <87fvvymbac.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372734653 9285 80.91.229.3 (2 Jul 2013 03:10:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 03:10:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: Harry Putnam Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 02 05:10:52 2013 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 1UtqzU-0002HF-7j for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2013 05:10:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52870 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtqzT-0006f8-Ne for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59633) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtqzP-0006ez-IA for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:10:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtqzN-0005pF-8D for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::230]:34437) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Utquo-0004ea-1Z for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id kp12so5713285pab.21 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:06:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:user-mail-address:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=AAwO1EyvjPjl7XocwFzENNYGyi0Uq0msfBVc/ePupWg=; b=HycY+Uh3RbolHAnGpy5hQ0gn0PgZ7y+s0BOSiJdH1/1zpdkzepxUnFjcJsUR/598uw aNtWid7hyycJh1F2Z4P3hh6U7svdum5Iq4Ah1f/MdFwf7WotnaIt4nfkk4Zyl9CpKwDP uG7CRR046r2VLQfPJxbG91LOLgsABZzGFi0A7qHa7H2MZawKSg8T4F2kagTqMZpQLYzw I0kFy8P4tdkIu5UBzrgZUisx75NWH0AC1MjV4DnO1TWqGEU7j1zMSEhOrGBPfjYSKNsf l6JWkRHyn5CLB24LqoztRjlL0A8aQ4xvaloREsAr9yDYdKQ0S4IbavY6eD8uVioMTvjQ dPEw== X-Received: by 10.66.48.234 with SMTP id p10mr20164328pan.33.1372734360610; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:06:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([122.178.253.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id py6sm21588269pbb.33.2013.07.01.20.05.56 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:05:59 -0700 (PDT) User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <87fvvymbac.fsf@newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:37:31 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::230 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:16363 Archived-At: On Mon, Jul 01 2013,Harry Putnam wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan 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 --