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From: David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Expiring articles
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:54:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y68r7hh590p.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3oeclnjdr.fsf@ceres.staly.plus.com>

David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:

> How do I expire a number of articles in a mail group?  I only seem to
> be able to mark one at a time, using "E", but sometimes I would like
> to expire a number of items, or even everything in the group.

Use the process/prefix convention: mark the articles you want to
expire (using '#' on individual articles, 'M P b' to mark the whole
buffer, etc.) then type 'M-& E' to expire all of the marked articles.

> Also, is there a way of removing an item immediately, without having
> to wait a week (or whatever time I have specified for the group) for
> it to expire?

'B DEL'

  --dzm


  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-11 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-11 20:33 David Sumbler
2005-04-11 20:54 ` David Z Maze [this message]
2005-04-12  7:37   ` David Sumbler
2005-04-12 14:26     ` David Z Maze
2005-04-12 19:44       ` David Sumbler

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