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* Re: How many articles to fetch from a group
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@ 2008-10-01 19:45 ` harven
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From: harven @ 2008-10-01 19:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Andreas Davour <anteRUN@updateLIKE.uu.HELLse> writes:

> Once again I've failed to find what I need in the manual. I use gnus for
> mail, and even when I've forcefully marked mail for expiration they seem
> to linger, since every time I enter a group gnus asks me "How many
> articles from nnfolder:INBOX" and I'm getting annoyed at that showing up
> all the time, and the number of articles i.e. the "default <foo>" is
> only getting larger all the time.

Hi, 
you can put in your initfile (setq gnus-large-newsgroup 1000) 
You will then be prompted when entering a group only if it contains
more than a thousand message. You may also try (setq nnmail-expiry-wait 1)
By default, expired messages are only deleted after one week; this will
shorten that duration to one day. Finally there is the function 
gnus-summary-expire-articles which deletes all articles that are marked 
as expirable in the current group.

Hope that helps

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