From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus - automatically expiring articles Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:05:33 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87y6i21yfm.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <873a0arfyq.fsf@ma-patru.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272991060 8810 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 16:37:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:37:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 18:37:37 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9L7o-0004x1-Rq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 18:37:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44701 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9L7o-0008FI-BI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 12:37:36 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.net.uni-c.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IbViRUEdggkNYjxfrRmUW8ZobXQ= Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.64.209.110 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=BjT?31Uhj^g^Yj[LZVmDVlYSB=nbEKnkkB5eHL>g@_; bGYG:0; 0_3?no_>`WUg<`1joJZA^dLN@mm_@4Sc0jFK9g\ahg[La7i2bjGN\< List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72937 Archived-At: On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:27:41 +0100, Nicolas Neuss wrote: > Hello, > > I think I'm using Gnus quite wrong, because I cannot get it to > auto-expire old articles (which I have read or marked as read with using > 'd' in the summary buffer) from mailing lists. For hunting down the > problem, I have two questions: > > 1. Can I find out somehow if the list (e.g. nnml+private:mail.maxima) is > correctly recognized as auto-expirable? > > 2. I observe that a mail which I mark with 'd' is marked by 'r' (but not > automatically by 'E' as expired). When I visit the buffer later I > see it marked with 'O'. Is this a sign of a bad setup? Articles are marked as expirable automatically if the group has the 'auto-expire' property set to t. You can set it for a group by typing 'G p' over the name of the group in the *Group* buffer and then adding this property to the parameter list of the group: (auto-expire . t) By default groups have no properties, so you will see 'nil' as their property list: nil You can replace this with a list that contains only a cons cell with auto-expire: ((auto-expire . t)) You can enable multiple group properties, e.g.: ((auto-expire . t) (posting-style (from "keramida@freebsd.org (Giorgos Keramidas)")))