Gnus: expiring unread articles

Gnus: expiring unread articles

[Mark T.B. Carroll]

Hopefully, a simpler question than the last:

I have a group called nnml+mail:mail.spam that my probable spam is
filtered into. I am happy to let articles in it expire without my having
marked them read or suchlike.

How do I achieve this? Can I get the articles marked as expirable
somehow when they are filtered into the group? Or can I use some
combination of options to let unread articles expire for that group?

Thanks.

-- Mark

Re: Gnus: expiring unread articles

[Bastien]

Mark T. B. Carroll writes:

> I have a group called nnml+mail:mail.spam that my probable spam is
> filtered into. I am happy to let articles in it expire without my having
> marked them read or suchlike.

G c to customize your group (or G p if you prefer) and edit the
`auto-expire' and `total-expire' options.

This is what i have for my spam group:

((auto-expire . t)
 (total-expire . t)
 (spam-contents gnus-group-spam-classification-spam)
 (spam-process
  ((spam spam-use-spamassassin)))
 (spam-process-destination)
 (spam-marks
  (gnus-spam-mark))
 (expiry-wait . immediate)
 (expiry-target . delete))

(Delete the spamassassin lines if you're not using spamassassin.)

-- 
Bastien

Re: Gnus: expiring unread articles

[Mark T.B. Carroll]

Bastien <bastien@xxx.fr> writes:

(snip)
> This is what i have for my spam group:
(snip)

Thanks very much! In trying to understand your code, I have now found
spam.el which is full of interesting reading. I shall steal several
ideas from it. (-:

-- Mark

Re: Gnus: expiring unread articles

[Bastien]

Mark T. B. Carroll writes:

> Thanks very much! In trying to understand your code, I have now
> found spam.el which is full of interesting reading. I shall steal
> several ideas from it. (-:

Don't steal! Just use :)  And YES, spam.el is very useful.

best,

-- 
Bastien

Re: Gnus: expiring unread articles

[Mark T.B. Carroll]

Bastien <bastien@xxx.fr> writes:

> Don't steal! Just use :)  And YES, spam.el is very useful.

(-: In the spirit of sharing, here's what I came up with for the
expiration. In conjunction with auto expire, it appears to be enough to
do,

(defun gnus-expire-spam ()
 "Expire SPAM articles."
 (interactive)
 (gnus-activate-group gnus-spam-group)
 (let ((number-read (gnus-group-catchup gnus-spam-group t)))
   (cond ((not (numberp number-read)) (message "Failed to expire spam."))
         ((= 0 number-read) (message "Expired no spam articles."))
         ((= 1 number-read) (message "Expired 1 spam article."))
         ( t                (message "Expired %i spam articles." number-read))))
 (gnus-group-update-group gnus-spam-group t))

I don't really know what I'm doing, TBH - I only started using Gnus at
all a week ago, and have never written much elisp, but this seems to
work well enough.

-- Mark