From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2524 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Z Maze Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Expire messages in group Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 16:27:22 -0400 Message-ID: <87u1bpxt1x.fsf@cag.lcs.mit.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668926 15453 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:49 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEUGBgS83KhoOivUeFmC pXj4o39qeFZD1JPmAAACOklEQVR4nE2UQY/bIBCFkVPlbpX0bA2tz7sQcl5SlnsWc7cclv// E/oGjNNxokjz8eYxA7HwR9xLKQGRC4eQezqUj7KWnDOzAOB3EjaBKDl4KPARzkvpAIqoUTwI a2op6WVoeXHOlfgsnJPM1kl0SdMIFEJ0AaIJshiRhkCsHbC/51LycKDmgiw2jVJy9B9IDPNN U5NkSMQoR+c5/zTW3qjZgwg5ylpJ2YT4wubO7FEVEs0NhvPJaqzxDaDS2gUpGUjyDkau9NxB fKsmu4Ir2XSpwAjxYwfsfeqlbJwqcAwwcLINxGRWtIhhMEB7ZLoAJudd4aE42e4RCQDjYMXK CpS6XOBtNM7EVfPAbRgihfU08Sg9jqIr9G9JJuo70cCty66gwY6kzJ9xIygyJs7mDNQcSEUV iPSE1qt5mLgUkcGj8ExTbrvii2CwG3UCQkxUXDUPE03KIqPw8Iq33IBfUcbw/Ez9eeo8VvPr qrRNj2RU1DjeaN6cG8c6RKVNnTg+GIDWfAkPBVdK2jC84fCq4n4yik+VNICNtoPlPkScrKmh bPw+FIGSYmBrOUPeNfATjajPpFXtMl0Hvyt4imfzqDvC9zZ3cAEYvlt/ADq7rvDbNKj3RuxC B7gsZRWzbSAaymNXSPxjia8id1GmV6kUyjDMf9vd3daXAiYFd4GvXNzmaT7AspRyJnoif6Nn Ob8UC94fN6KybTSbvB0e46d3Tyzm+I7v4QWW5WGswZulXFNyv/4DGFvqYRv4BxSm28ZwQ4mv AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC X-Face: &OO..E]'&$Q?jm[7H$]lCS"t#FD[|jK.HfvP#![KZ`/,O)lQ(pE<2QS1i~K3+u\{Bh"(4h4G0W#R-F2zZNO6n\!8bk;tu%)f>y{C` P*^7yM`e/x"b1q[?^-9zxTp User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VULlqizF6I51izFmMkgQC03FZII= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24-6-154.wireless.lcs.mit.edu Original-X-Trace: 1053462405 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 3930 18.24.6.154 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2664 Original-Lines: 26 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2664 Tue Jan 17 17:30:49 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2524 Archived-At: Christian Schmitt 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