Re: nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets questions

[Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu>]

anti-spam-pranav@cisco.com (Pranav K. Tiwari) writes:

> 1. I am trying to set nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets to a value such that all
>    articles matching "to" or "cc" to a regexp are expired into
>    "nnml:expired.%Y-%m", and the others are expired to 'delete. How should
>    I specify 'delete as an option?

With the current implementation, you can't.  But see the end of the
post for a workaround.

> 2. As a workaround, I tried setting the following based on what I found in
>    the info:
>
> (setq nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets
>       '(("to" "pranav" "nnml:expired.%Y-%m")
> 	("from" ".*" "nnml:expired-other.%Y-%m")))
>
>
>    The problem with this is that the articles in nndraft:draft don't have a
>    from string and I get an error whenever I try to send a message which is
>    saved in drafts folder. I also get an error if I try to DEL something in
>    drafts group.

Yup.  I set the group-parameter expiry-target to 'delete on the
nndrafts group so that it doesn't go through the fancy expiry
process.  

> Any hints on what nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets should be set to?

Articles that don't match anything in nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets are
'deleted.  So what you want in 1. can be achieved via

(setq nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets
      '(("to" "pranav" "nnml:expired.%Y-%m")
        ("cc" "pranav" "nnml:expired.%Y-%m")))


You will still need to make sure that nndrafts groups don't use
n-f-e-t.

-- 
Nevin