Re: How to deal with "Archive" and "delete" in gmail?

[Rainer M. Krug]

Cor  <cor@clsnet.nl> writes:

> The Feisty Youngster Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug)
> scribbled this (selectively-snipped-or-not-p) stuff
>
>>
>>In contrast, "Deleting" can be achieved by moving the message to the
>>folder [gmail]\bin (or what it is called in the locale one is using). 
>>
>>Now I am using Expire to move the emails to the bin folder, i.e. to
>>delete them. But is there something similar I could use to Archive them?
>>especially archiving several message becomes a pain. 
>
> if you use something like this to sort mail to read in gnus:
>
> ;; (setq nnmail-split-methods
>       '(
>       ("cron"         "^Subject: cron:.*")
>       ("cvs"          "^Subject: \\[CVS\\]")
>       ("rootmail"     "^From: root@ ")
>         ...
>       ("spam"     ""))))
>
>
> ;;;;;; Expiring junk  
>
> (setq auto-expire t)
> (setq gnus-inhibit-user-auto-expire nil)
> (setq gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups "nnml.*")
> (setq nnmail-expiry-wait-function
>            (lambda (group)
>             (cond ((string= "spam"  group ) 1)
>            ; ...
>       ;; deleting a message after 1 day
>                 ((string= "private" group ) 'never)
>                 ((string= "slackware" group ) 'never)
>         ;; never deleting a message                   
>          ; ...
>                 (t 7))))
>         ;;all aother groups are deleted after 7 days
>

I assume this is automatically splitting the messages - correct? I am
actually looking for something to do it manually.
I wil loo into the automatic version later, but not that applicable as I
am using gnus mainly for email.

Thanks,

Rainer

>
> Cor
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