From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8729 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Z Maze Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: 2 questions about EXPIRE setting in gnus Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:56:43 -0500 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Message-ID: References: <8xesux6k.fsf@yyy.zzz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172076057 20482 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2007 16:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:40:57 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 21 17:40:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HJuWP-00047Y-8F for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:40:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJuWO-0006od-Qn for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:40:48 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y503krTQ6hYWMV8GZ3+3WKWn2C4= Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: CONTENTS-VNDER-PRESSVRE.MIT.EDU Original-X-Trace: 1172073403 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 569 18.7.18.65 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:78912 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:8729 Archived-At: winsphinX writes: > i set 'total expired' in gnus mail, and the mails are > disappeared after 7 days, I saw only about ten mails in > group buffer, obviously many mails were expiresd,but in > mini-buffer, it was still shown 'default 400', why? and the > disappeared mails are deleted or are only invisible? You're seeing two different effects. First, Gnus by default will only show unread articles in a group (pressing C-u RET from the group buffer, or normal RET on a group with no unread or ticked articles, will show them all). Total expiry will delete (as in, removed from the disk, gone forever) read mails that meet its criteria. Your other options are auto-expiry (reading an article marks it expirable rather than read, but no non-expirable article is ever expired) and manual expiry ('E' on an article marks it expirable and it will eventually get deleted). > and the second question is, when i set the same setting in > gnus newsgroup, is doesn't work. i need such a result -- the > news before 7 days will be automatic deleted to free my disk > space. The newsgroup articles live on the news server, not on your local machine. So you can't usefully set any expiry option there (you can't cause the server to delete its articles) but the newsgroup also shouldn't be taking up any space locally. --dzm