From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1508 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: stromme@mi.uib.no (Stein A. Stromme) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to set up gnus email. Date: 25 Nov 2002 15:54:39 +0100 Organization: Univ. of Bergen, Dept. of Mathematics Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668257 11554 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:44:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:16 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!nntp.uib.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: eliud.mi.uib.no Original-X-Trace: toralf.uib.no 1038236079 18690 129.177.61.66 (25 Nov 2002 14:54:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uib.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Nov 2002 14:54:39 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1648 Original-Lines: 47 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1648 Tue Jan 17 17:29:16 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1508 Archived-At: [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 -- Stein Arild Strømme +47 55584825, +47 95801887 Universitetet i Bergen Fax: +47 55589672 Matematisk institutt www.mi.uib.no/~stromme Johs Brunsg 12, N-5008 BERGEN stromme@mi.uib.no