From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16362 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: expiring with gnus-parameters Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:37:31 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87fvvymbac.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87ppv79inb.fsf@newsguy.com> <878v1unacz.fsf@gmail.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 1372702302 22552 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2013 18:11:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 18:11:42 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 01 20:11:43 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 1UtiZf-0000hx-Rq for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:11:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51148 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtiZf-0004JA-Ci for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:11:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45351) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtiZb-0004EL-Iw for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtiMu-0008PC-W0 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:58:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uti4T-0005Ei-03 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uti4Q-000791-Qk for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:39:22 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:39:22 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:39:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dNv9Vq7UWFMz99m+leqLevaTOjg= 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:16362 Archived-At: Sivaram Neelakantan writes: > On Fri, Jun 28 2013,Harry Putnam wrote: > > > [snipped 21 lines] > >> 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. > > 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 >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...