Re: expiry-target

Re: expiry-target

[Pranav K. Tiwari]

>
>> Found a diff in my CVS tree which I think could be useful to others too.
>>
>> There are two places where nnmail-expiry-target is used. On gnus-group.el,
>> it's run through format-time-string, but in gnus-sum.el, it's not. The
>> following diffs fix the discrepancy.
>>
>> -p
>>
>>
>> Index: gnus-sum.el
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/gnus-sum.el,v
>> retrieving revision 6.356
>> diff -r6.356 gnus-sum.el
>> 9192a9193,9196
>>> 	   (nnmail-expiry-target
>>> 	    (if (stringp nnmail-expiry-target)
>>> 		(format-time-string nnmail-expiry-target)
>>> 	      nnmail-expiry-target))
>
> In my gnus, format-time-string is not invoked on *-expiry-target in
> neither file?

Sorry - my bad ..

Looked more carefully, and realized that format-time-string was added into
both files by me in my local CVS tree. I remember I was looking for the
ability to archive expired mails from different months into different
folders, and using a function as expiry-target didn't work very well on
nnimap groups. So, I had hacked this code to run format-time-string to
achieve that purpose.

-p

expiry-target

[Mike Woolley]

Hi,

I've been using `nnmail-expiry-target' to expire old mails to archive
groups and it works a treat, except that the archived articles do not
have their marks preserved. This is rather annoying, as I end up with
lots of unread groups of messages I've already read :-)

I'm using Gnus 5.9 and I had a look at the code and all
`nnmail-expiry-target-group' does is 

...
(unless (eq target 'delete)
  (gnus-request-accept-article target nil nil t)))

Which seems to explain what I've observed.

Does anyone know of a way to have the expiry process preserve the
original marks?

Thanks,
Mike