Memnon Anon <[email protected]> writes: > [email protected] (Rainer M. Krug) writes: > >> So I would like to move all mails before 2011 into groups Archive.YEAR, >> where YEAR is the year of the email. > > BTW, if you want to set on this method from now on, I found this while > browsing the manual: > > ,----[ (info "(gnus)Expiring Mail") ] > | (setq nnmail-expiry-target 'nnmail-fancy-expiry-target > | nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets > | '((to-from "boss" "nnfolder:Work") > | ("subject" "IMPORTANT" "nnfolder:IMPORTANT.%Y.%b") > | ("from" ".*" "nnfolder:Archive-%Y"))) > | > | With this setup, any mail that has `IMPORTANT' in its Subject header > | and was sent in the year `YYYY' and month `MMM', will get expired to > | the group `nnfolder:IMPORTANT.YYYY.MMM'. If its From or To header > | contains the string `boss', it will get expired to `nnfolder:Work'. > `---- > > I never tried it, but fancy expiring may be worth investigating...
Absolutely - and this looks exactly like what I would need. I would then have to change my habit of Expiring=deleting (moving to [Gmail]\Bin folder) to Expiring=Archiving - which makes much more sense anyway as E is pressed easily. Deleting I could then with B m Thanks a lot - I will investigate, Rainer > > hth > Memnon > > > _______________________________________________ > info-gnus-english mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: [email protected] Skype: RMkrug _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
