Tim Landscheidt writes: > James Thomas wrote: > >>> often in a group, I want to handle a subset of articles as >>> auto-expirable and the rest as not. For example, all my >>> mail from Amazon gets split into a group. I want to keep >>> mails referring to an actual order forever, while I want to >>> set "we noticed you bought a toilet seat last week, do you >>> fancy another one?" mails as expirable. > >>> Therefore, since time immemorial, I wanted to extend the >>> auto-expire group parameter by a third option, an (anony- >>> mous/named) function that looks at the current article and >>> then decides whether to mark it as expirable. > >>> This would also allow to spell out an "archive policy" in >>> the form of an interactive function that would ask me "is >>> this article referring to an actual order?", thus implying >>> that articles that fulfill this criteria are kept (or not). > >>> Has anyone ever implemented something like this? > >> Why not, say, '& body <RET> some.*string <RET> E'? > > Because that is the manual procedure that I want to auto- > mate?! :-)
How about 'C-x M-:' right after that, and putting it in a hook? There ought to be one of the right color and shape. :-) --
