* Re: How to set up gnus email.
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@ 2002-11-25 14:54 ` Stein A. Stromme
2002-11-26 4:08 ` Kurt B. Kaiser
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From: Stein A. Stromme @ 2002-11-25 14:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
[Don Saklad]
| How do you make sure that old mail is not deleted automatically or
| unintentionally?... a definitive statement on what to do to prevent
| automatic `expiration' of old files.
I don't do anything special, and gnus does not delete my mail. I'm
able to delete mail myself using the 'B DEL y' key sequence. This
takes a numeric argument to allow me to delete lots of messages at
once. It can also delete # marked messages, if you prefer. The
confusion about mail expiration and deletion comes perhaps from the
fact that it is possible to auto-expire mail if you really really want
to.
> From the gnus info file:
Expiring Mail
-------------
Traditional mail readers have a tendency to remove mail
articles when you mark them as read, in some way. Gnus takes a
fundamentally different approach to mail reading.
Gnus basically considers mail just to be news that has been
received in a rather peculiar manner. It does not think that it
has the power to actually change the mail, or delete any mail
messages. If you enter a mail group, and mark articles as "read",
or kill them in some other fashion, the mail articles will still
exist on the system. I repeat: Gnus will not delete your old,
read mail. Unless you ask it to, of course.
To make Gnus get rid of your unwanted mail, you have to mark
the articles as "expirable". This does not mean that the articles
will disappear right away, however. In general, a mail article
will be deleted from your system if, 1) it is marked as expirable,
AND 2) it is more than one week old. If you do not mark an
article as expirable, it will remain on your system until hell
freezes over. This bears repeating one more time, with some
spurious capitalizations: IF you do NOT mark articles as
EXPIRABLE, Gnus will NEVER delete those ARTICLES.
SA
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