Expiring articles

Expiring articles

[David Sumbler]

How do I expire a number of articles in a mail group?  I only seem to
be able to mark one at a time, using "E", but sometimes I would like
to expire a number of items, or even everything in the group.

Also, is there a way of removing an item immediately, without having
to wait a week (or whatever time I have specified for the group) for
it to expire?  The only way I have found so far to do this (in
effect), is to use "B m" to move the item to a redundant group.

David

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Re: Expiring articles

[David Z Maze]

David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:

> How do I expire a number of articles in a mail group?  I only seem to
> be able to mark one at a time, using "E", but sometimes I would like
> to expire a number of items, or even everything in the group.

Use the process/prefix convention: mark the articles you want to
expire (using '#' on individual articles, 'M P b' to mark the whole
buffer, etc.) then type 'M-& E' to expire all of the marked articles.

> Also, is there a way of removing an item immediately, without having
> to wait a week (or whatever time I have specified for the group) for
> it to expire?

'B DEL'

  --dzm

Re: Expiring articles

[David Sumbler]

David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:

> David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:
>
>> How do I expire a number of articles in a mail group?  I only seem to
>> be able to mark one at a time, using "E", but sometimes I would like
>> to expire a number of items, or even everything in the group.
>
> Use the process/prefix convention: mark the articles you want to
> expire (using '#' on individual articles, 'M P b' to mark the whole
> buffer, etc.) then type 'M-& E' to expire all of the marked articles.
>
>> Also, is there a way of removing an item immediately, without having
>> to wait a week (or whatever time I have specified for the group) for
>> it to expire?
>
> 'B DEL'

Thanks for those.  I've had another look, and now I see them in the
Gnus 5.10 Reference Card.  I don't know why I hadn't spotted 'B DEL'.
'M-&' is definitely going to be a useful one.

A further query: according to the Reference Card, 'E' or 'M e' works
with "scope".  But if I type (say) '5 E' or 'M-5 M e' or anything
similar, I still only get one message marked as expirable.

How should I be using "scope"?

David

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Re: Expiring articles

[David Z Maze]

David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:

> A further query: according to the Reference Card, 'E' or 'M e' works
> with "scope".  But if I type (say) '5 E' or 'M-5 M e' or anything
> similar, I still only get one message marked as expirable.

A quick test suggests that '2 E' Works For Me: it marks the article
the point is on and the following article both as expirable.  (This is
with nothing process-marked with '#'.)

  --dzm

Re: Expiring articles

[David Sumbler]

David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:

> David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:
>
>> A further query: according to the Reference Card, 'E' or 'M e' works
>> with "scope".  But if I type (say) '5 E' or 'M-5 M e' or anything
>> similar, I still only get one message marked as expirable.
>
> A quick test suggests that '2 E' Works For Me: it marks the article
> the point is on and the following article both as expirable.  (This is
> with nothing process-marked with '#'.)

Strange - it certainly doesn't work for me.  Gnus v5.10.6, Emacs 21.3
on Fedora Core 2.

David

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