Re: total-expire *and* explicit expire with different expiry-wait

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Hmm... any recommendation of how to best approximate the desired behavior?
> I was thinking that I could just turn off total-expire and set expiry-wait
> at 10days and then have an explicit "purge" command that would temporarily
> set expiry-wait at 180, turn on total-expire and cause expiration (and do
> that on a bunch of different groups).

Yes, that should work...

> I'm not fluent in Gnu internals, so if someone can give me a rough idea of
> what functions I'll need to use, I'd be very grateful.

Hm...  I'm not quite sure, but perhaps binding
"gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups" to something that matched the
groups you're interested in expiring, and then calling the expiry
functions would do the trick?  I haven't tried; this might not work. 

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen