Re: expiring with gnus-parameters

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

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

> On Fri, Jun 28 2013,Harry Putnam wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Yes, me too. I've always wondered whether there's any way to do this
> without opening the groups.  If it can be bound to M-g and that too
> only once/24 hrs, it would be great.

You are in luck Sivaram... I posted my question on the ding list and
got this nifty reply from Eric Abrahamsen

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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...