From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16357 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: expiring with gnus-parameters Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:35:36 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87ppv79inb.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 1372379854 2156 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2013 00:37:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:37:34 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 28 02:37:33 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 1UsMgr-00073y-NN for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:37:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38092 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsMgr-0000RB-AY for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsMgo-0000R2-JC for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:37:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsMgn-0000Ss-OC for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:32853) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsMgn-0000So-HQ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UsMgl-0006y9-L0 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:37:23 +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 ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:37:23 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:37:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 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:U/scQSaTA8VV00t1Bdhff3220UM= 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:16357 Archived-At: I've used "gnus-parameters" for yrs to run total-expire with specific expiry-wait periods on certain groups... but there is always this problem. Gnus wants me to actually open and close these groups before the expiry takes place. Some of the groups I rarely if ever have need of opening unless just to run the expiry code. I want to keep the backlog... just in case I should need to use it. I want to just let these groups move along by themselves and find some way to trick them into thinking the group has been opened and closed so total-expire will be run, or maybe just run code periodically (on auto pilot) that opens and closes the groups. Maybe there is some completely different way to do this: Can anyone tell me how to arrange for certain groups to be opened and closed with no human intervention and for that to be automated? 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.