Re: Immediate deletion of mail

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Feb 26 2008, Sebastian Tennant wrote:

> How to immediately delete mail in a particular group?

`B DEL' (`gnus-summary-delete-article') as suggested by Adam is one
possibility.

> I've added the group to gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups and set the
> expiry period for that group to 'immediate, using
> nnmail-expiry-wait-function, 

I can't parse this.  Better post code.

Note:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Expiring Mail") ]
|    By the way: That line up there, about Gnus never expiring
| non-expirable articles, is a lie.  If you put `total-expire' in the
| group parameters, articles will not be marked as expirable, but all read
| articles will be put through the expiry process.  Use with extreme
| caution.  Even more dangerous is the `gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups'
| variable.  All groups that match this regexp will have all read
| articles put through the expiry process, which means that _all_ old
| mail articles in the groups in question will be deleted after a while.
| Use with extreme caution, and don't come crying to me when you discover
| that the regexp you used matched the wrong group and all your important
| mail has disappeared.  Be a _man_!  Or a _woman_!  Whatever you feel
| more comfortable with!  So there!
`----

> but I now need a way to automatically mark all mail arriving in that
> group as read so that it is, indeed, expired.

Bye, Reiner.
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