Re: Immediate deletion of mail

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Feb 27 2008, Sebastian Tennant wrote:

> I should have added "without ever having to visit that group."  I want
> the group to act like /dev/null essentially.
[...]
> This arrangement works as it stands.  Each time I quit the summary
> buffer of 'blackhole' any read mail is immediately expired but I don't
> want to read it.  I don't even want to visit the group in the first
> place.  

IIRC, expiry only happens on group exit.  Maybe you need to simulate
entering and quitting the group:

(defun rs-gnus-enter-and-quit-group ()
  (interactive)
  (gnus-group-quick-select-group 0 "nnml:blackhole")
  (gnus-summary-exit))

,----[ (info "(gnus)Selecting a Group") ]
| `M-RET'
|      This does the same as the command above, but tries to do it with
|      the minimum amount of fuzz (`gnus-group-quick-select-group').  No
|      scoring/killing will be performed, there will be no highlights and
|      no expunging.  This might be useful if you're in a real hurry and
|      have to enter some humongous group.  If you give a 0 prefix to
|      this command (i.e., `0 M-RET'), Gnus won't even generate the
|      summary buffer, which is useful if you want to toggle threading
|      before generating the summary buffer (*note Summary Generation
|      Commands::).
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> I just want mail split to 'blackhole' to disappear.

How about using `junk' in `nnmail-split-fancy'?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Fancy Mail Splitting") ]
| `junk'
|      If the split is the symbol `junk', then don't save (i.e., delete)
|      this message.  Use with extreme caution.
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Bye, Reiner.
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