From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: harven Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: struggling with gnus imap Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:42:24 +0100 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <878wqdpjsy.fsf@bornier.net> <874p11pd2a.fsf@bornier.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229697658 27620 80.91.229.12 (19 Dec 2008 14:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:40:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 19 15:42:03 2008 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 4.50) id 1LDgYC-00008i-MF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:42:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59928 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDgX0-00017s-A2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:40:46 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp18-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9dWTvVIMdHKb77ujVrhqDbjf5Xg= Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Dec 2008 14:42:26 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.240.200.149 Original-X-Trace: 1229694146 news-1.free.fr 6996 82.240.200.149:49979 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165521 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:60853 Archived-At: "Sven Bretfeld" writes: > Roger Mason writes: > >>> What do you see when you "open server buffer" (use "^" in gnus to do that)? >> >> {nnfolder:archive} (opened) >> {nnimap:MUN} (opened) >> {nnml:} (opened) >> {nntp:coranto.ucs.mun.ca} (opened) (agent) > > I also shifted from nnml to nnimap this week. I had similar problems at > the beginning. As far as I can remember, it worked after I deleted > (renamed) ~/.newsrc and ~/.newsrc.eld. But you have to subscribe to all > groups again and re-create your topics if you do that. But this takes > only a few seconds. Just open the server buffer with "^" enter the > servers (RET) and hit "u" on every relevant group. Your imap-Server MUN > should show all folders extant on the server as groups ready to be > subscribed. > > You can create new imap-folders by hitting "G m" in the summary buffer. > Type in a name (e.g. "Important") RET nnimap:MUN RET. Hit "G del" if you > want to delete a folder. > > I still don't know how I should configure expiry. I would like to delete > the mail in some folders by hand (in case of folders where I keep > messages that still demand action), while the usual inbox should delete > its contents automatically after some 30 days. > > Greetings > > Sven This can be done using gnus-parameters. See (info"(gnus)Group Parameters") under the item expiry-wait. For example, (setq nnmail-expiry-wait 30) (setq gnus-parameters '(("imap.*\\|nndoc.*" (expiry-wait . immediate)) ("name-of-some-folder" (expiry-wait . never))))