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Don't delete old mail automatically or unintentionally in gnus
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Don Saklad |
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Don't delete old mail automatically or unintentionally in gnus |
Date: |
17 Feb 2003 13:16:29 -0500 |
Questions
1. about how to make sure that old mail is not deleted
automatically
or unintentionally;
a definitive statement on what to do to prevent automatic `expiration'
of old files.
According to both Stein A. Stromme stromme (a little snail at sign)
mi.uib.no
and David Maze dmaze (a little snail at sign) mit.edu the latest version
of gnus will not delete old mail.
For removal, it's necessary mark mail messages explicitly.
This is a reversal of the previous default according to the then manual,
in which mail messages were deleted automatically. Email message were
treated as previously-read news articles; it had been necessarly to
take special measures to avoid having gnus delete them after a period.
Unfortunately, it's neither apparent which versions of gnus are safe;
nor how to ensure that messages are safe indefinately.
2. about how to highlight each of the following differently from each other
and from that which is `old and read'
and from that which is marked for deletion,
a minimum of 7 different highlighting looks:
in the *Group* buffer
Summary buffer with any unread new email in it
Summary buffer with any unread old email in it
Summary buffer with only email in it that has all been read
in a *Summary* buffer
new unread email messages
old unread email messages
old previously read email messages
in any buffer
that which is marked for deletion or expiration
Some people use different colors for highlighting, some people use
different fonts or different `voices' in their Emacspeak.
3. about how to use spamassassin in conjunction with a second spam filter, such
as
`ifilter', and the gnus fancy splitting features to put suspected spam
into a different file when mail comes from an mbox on the local machine.
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