From: David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Expire messages in group
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 16:27:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u1bpxt1x.fsf@cag.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k7cl3gr4.fsf@dresdner-bank.com>
Christian Schmitt <Christian.Schmitt@dresdner-bank.com> writes:
> I have this one nnmail group that holds messages from a mailing
> list. I haven't (so far) set anything that has to do with
> expiration. Now this group has gotten quite large and I want to delete
> all messages older than let's say 90 days.
>
> How can I talk Gnus into marking all messages older than 90 days as
> expirable and then expire them?
There are a few ways to do this. First off, you can use the marking
commands to mark existing articles as expirable; '/ d -90' would limit
the buffer to articles older than 90 days, then 'M P b' would mark all
of these articles and 'M-& E' would mark them expirable.
You can use 'G c' from the *Group* buffer to change group parameters.
If it were me, I'd set the group in question to be total-expirable,
with a delay of 90 days; this means that, after 90 days, any article
that's read (not just expirable) will be considered for expiry. The
alternative is auto-expirable, which marks articles expirable rather
than read when you read them (though you can change them back).
--
David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell
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