From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5377 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Z Maze Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Globally marking articles in summary as expirable or read? Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:38:26 -0400 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Message-ID: References: <87zmsrc1yk.fsf@mail.augustmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671104 27158 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:31:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:11 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YaQtExdNP0WIYNH7Ay2m5sAvxUc= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: GRUMPY-FUZZBALL.MIT.EDU Original-X-Trace: 1121200706 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 560 18.7.16.79 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5519 Original-Lines: 21 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5519 Tue Jan 17 17:35:11 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5377 Archived-At: Lance Hoffmeyer writes: > How can I, once I am in the summary buffer, globally or with a regex, > mark articles as expirable (usually with "E") or read "d"? Process-mark all of the articles ('M P b'), then apply the relevant command to all of the articles ('M-& E' or 'M-& d'). > Along the same lines, I have noticed that once I have marked > articles as expirable they are not actually removed. I assume they > will be removed in 31 days. Can I set a condition in my .gnus file > that only articles marked as "expirable" are removed immediately? Perhaps changing nnmail-expiry-wait would help you. My loose observation has also been that articles seem to get expired that many days after it's last touched, or maybe first read, not that many days after its initial reception. I tend to use total expiry on groups corresponding to mailing lists and an extremely limited amount of explicit expiry elsewhere. --dzm