Re: Move message of a given year into new group

[Rainer M. Krug]

Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:

> Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Rainer@krugs.de (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


Just realized the one problem: in gmail, to delete an email from the
account, I have to move it into the Bin directory - so I would have to
do two things:

1) expire it with the fancy target, which works nicely by the way, and 
2) copy it into the bin folder

Other option: I think that when I move it out of the All Mail folder, it
will be removed. So I would have to set expiry targets depending on
the folder from which I want to expire it. Is it from the group
[Gmail]\All Mail I want to expire it to the archive folder
nnimap+Maildir:Archives.%Y but from any other group, I want to expire it
to the [Gmail]\All Mail group. Is this possible? I don't see any
indication in the manual on how I can use nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets
based on groups?

Thanks,

Rainer


>
> Thanks a lot - I will investigate,
>
> Rainer
>
>
>>
>> hth
>> Memnon
>>
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