Top Document: Gnus (Emacs Newsreader) FAQ Previous Document: Q4.17 My splitting rules seem to miss a few messages. Why? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge auto-expire: When an article is read (the word `read' here being a verb, not a noun referring to the mark), Gnus also marks it as expirable (`E'). When the expiry process occurs, it explicitly uses the articles marked with `E' as the set of articles eligible for expiration. total-expire: No `E' marks are used or relevant at all. When the expiry process occurs, articles marked as read are eligible for expiration. Note that this means articles that are not unmarked and are not marked with either `!' or `?' as both of those marks are just special ways of saying "unread". The real difference: The benefit of auto-expire is that in really huge groups (several thousand messages) or groups with really old ticked of dormant messages, the expiry process will be much faster. This is due to the fact that Gnus has an explicit list of eligible articles, instead of having to rebuild such a list each time expiry is invoked. The benefit of total-expire is that it is simpler. There is no such thing as a special mark for expirable messages. All articles that are read and not marked otherwise will be expired once they are old enough. ------------------------------ This FAQ is Copyright 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation. Please send comments, and suggestions to Justin Sheehy <URL:mailto:dworkin@ccs.neu.edu>. User Contributions:Top Document: Gnus (Emacs Newsreader) FAQ Previous Document: Q4.17 My splitting rules seem to miss a few messages. Why? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu>
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