* bulk deletion of email
@ 2004-02-25 4:23 Prateek Sadhukhan
2004-02-25 10:32 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Prateek Sadhukhan @ 2004-02-25 4:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
Is there a way in Gnus to do the following:
I.
When I read mail I want to mark mails I want to delete in the
group. Then when I finish reading, in one single command delete
all the marked mails.
II.
An extension to this is that I mark mails in various groups and
then while exiting Gnus I give the delete command and it deletes
all marked mails from all groups.
Thanks and Regards
Prateek
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* Re: bulk deletion of email
2004-02-25 4:23 bulk deletion of email Prateek Sadhukhan
@ 2004-02-25 10:32 ` Reiner Steib
[not found] ` <87hdxf9wjc.fsf@rechner1.ddorf.de>
[not found] ` <m3k72bb6rh.fsf@fed1.frank-schmitt.net>
2004-02-25 16:08 ` johnsu01
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2004-02-25 10:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Wed, Feb 25 2004, Prateek Sadhukhan wrote:
> I.
> When I read mail I want to mark mails I want to delete in the
> group. Then when I finish reading, in one single command delete
> all the marked mails.
Setting `nnmail-expiry-wait' to 'immediate and marking the mails with
`E' should do this. Read (info "(gnus)Expiring Mail") for details.
,----[ (info "(gnus)Expiring Mail") ]
| The `nnmail-expiry-wait' variable and `nnmail-expiry-wait-function'
| function can either be a number (not necessarily an integer) or one of
| the symbols `immediate' or `never'.
`----
> II.
> An extension to this is that I mark mails in various groups and
> then while exiting Gnus I give the delete command and it deletes
> all marked mails from all groups.
,----[ (info "(gnus)Group Maintenance") ]
| `C-c C-M-x'
| Run all expirable articles in all groups through the expiry process
| (`gnus-group-expire-all-groups').
`----
... together with `nnmail-expiry-wait' set to 1 day or so is
_approximately_ the same.
Bye, Reiner.
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* Re: bulk deletion of email
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@ 2004-02-25 13:56 ` Reiner Steib
[not found] ` <m2brnn6vuv.fsf@catbert.dok.org>
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2004-02-25 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Wed, Feb 25 2004, Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
[...]
>> Setting `nnmail-expiry-wait' to 'immediate and marking the mails with
>> `E' should do this. Read (info "(gnus)Expiring Mail") for details.
>
> Is it not enough to mark the mails with '#' and delete them
> afterwards with 'B Backspace'?
Well, there's always more than one way in Gnus. :-)
Bye, Reiner.
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* Re: bulk deletion of email
[not found] ` <m3k72bb6rh.fsf@fed1.frank-schmitt.net>
@ 2004-02-25 14:51 ` Prateek Sadhukhan
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From: Prateek Sadhukhan @ 2004-02-25 14:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Thanks thats exactly what I wanted :-)
|--==> "Frank" == Frank Schmitt <usereplyto2004@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:
>>I.
>>When I read mail I want to mark mails I want to delete in the
>>group. Then when I finish reading, in one single command delete
>>all the marked mails.
Frank> Mark the articles to be deleted with '#', delete them before leaving the
Frank> group with 'B Del'.
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* Re: bulk deletion of email
2004-02-25 4:23 bulk deletion of email Prateek Sadhukhan
2004-02-25 10:32 ` Reiner Steib
[not found] ` <m3k72bb6rh.fsf@fed1.frank-schmitt.net>
@ 2004-02-25 16:08 ` johnsu01
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From: johnsu01 @ 2004-02-25 16:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
Prateek Sadhukhan <psadhukhan@lucent.com> writes:
> Hi,
> Is there a way in Gnus to do the following:
>
> I.
> When I read mail I want to mark mails I want to delete in the
> group. Then when I finish reading, in one single command delete
> all the marked mails.
>
> II.
> An extension to this is that I mark mails in various groups and
> then while exiting Gnus I give the delete command and it deletes
> all marked mails from all groups.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Prateek
Someone else can give you a better answer I'm sure, but for #1, you
can just mark all of the mails with the process mark---hit # in the
summary buffer. Then when you want to delete them, hit B <del>. It
will delete all marked mails. Unmark a mail with M-#. If you have 10
mails in a row you want to mark, do C-u 10 #, and it will mark the
next 10 mails.
Not sure about II. I think there is a specific command to expire a
mail, then, depending on what your expiration settings are, it could
end up being deleted.
-johnsu01
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* Re: bulk deletion of email
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@ 2004-02-25 23:14 ` pkd
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From: pkd @ 2004-02-25 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Chris Green wrote:
> Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Is it not enough to mark the mails with '#' and delete them
>> afterwards with 'B Backspace'?
>
> # often bites me big time when going through a group. I'll mark
> things like spam and move them to a training group and then see a mail
> from Mom and hit F.
i delete mails i marked with `d'. you could tune this function to fit your
needs:
(defun gnus-summary-delete-r-articles ()
(interactive)
(unless (eq (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)) (gnus-summary-limit-to-marks "r"))
(goto-line 1)
(gnus-summary-delete-article (count-lines (point-min) (point-max))))
(gnus-summary-pop-limit))
(eval-after-load "gnus-sum"
'(progn
(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map "Bd" 'gnus-summary-delete-r-articles)))
> Then I have a nice *reply* buffer with the body of everyone of those
> spams in it.
>
> A delete me now flag would probably also help so that deletion can be
> separate from expiry but I'm sure there's a reason this hasn't been
> done.
--
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