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Subject: Re: Email in Gnus (Was: Mail in emacs.) From: Knut Forkalsrud <knut@forkalsrud.org> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 03:42:46 GMT olczyk@interaccess.com (Thaddeus L. Olczyk) writes: > I'm a bit confused now that I've skinned some of the documantation. > I presumed from earlier skimmings that after a certain time mail > 'expired' and was deleted from the mailbox. > > Skimming through now I see that it is quite possible that it is not > deleted. Only that it is not visible under normal circumastances. > Is this the case? Here is some text from the Gnus manual (Node: Expiring Mail) "To make Gnus get rid of your unwanted mail, you have to mark the articles as "expirable". This does not mean that the articles will disappear right away, however. In general, a mail article will be deleted from your system if, 1) it is marked as expirable, AND 2) it is more than one week old. If you do not mark an article as expirable, it will remain on your system until hell freezes over. This bears repeating one more time, with some spurious capitalizations: IF you do NOT mark articles as EXPIRABLE, Gnus will NEVER delete those ARTICLES." > If so when I decide to look at expired mail, is it treated like any > other group, mailing list? My Gnus setup splits incoming mail into three groups. Two of these are mailing lists that I don't care if I loose after a few days. In the *Group* buffer, I placed point at each of these groups and selected Menubar->Group->Edit->Parameters (G p). Then I entered: ((auto-expire . t) (expiry-wait . 14)) which means that I want these messages to be expireable once they are read, and that they will be deleted 14 days after marked expireable. Quite easy after I had spent a few minutes (hours) reading the manual. The manual was not that difficult to navigate once I sorted out the features of info-mode. -Knut -- Hard work often pays off after time. But laziness always pays off now.