nnimap two-level expiry?

I don't know if this is possible with nnimap, but I'm hoping someone can
tell me how to do it.  IMAP allows you to mark messages deleted and
then, sometime later, actually flush or "compress" the folder to remove
them completely.  I'd like expiry to do something like:

* mark all read articles as deleted
* actually remove all deleted articles over one week old

Is that, or anything like it, possible?

I realize that Gnus can hide read articles (very nicely!) but I need to
use other mail clients too (e.g. iPhone, RoundCube webmail), and they
don't always give me a good way to avoid looking at things.

Thanks in advance,

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variable-width font in summary buffer?

I'd like to use a variable-width font in my summary buffers, but it
seems that, especially when displaying threads, much of what Gnus does there
depends on a monospaced font.

Is anyone successfully using a variable-pitch font in the summary
buffer, and if so, do you have any configuration tips?

Thanks,

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Quick Searching of Gnus Letters

I have been using 'swish-e' as a "search engine" for a couple of years
to provide faster access directly from withing Gnus (via "G G") to
previous letters in my groups.

Since I, of late, have been redoing some of my long standing Gnus
configuration options, I thought I'd re-evaluate this as well.

Should I continue to use 'swish-e'?  Or, do you have another suggestion?

I did check both the Emacs and Gnus FAQs as well as checking Google.

Thanks,
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can Content-Type be set of the body of the message?

Hi,

For attachments, gnus prompt me for a content type (with a sensible
default), but when composing messages, can I set it explicitly? For
example (a bad one, though) if I wrote the email (actually pasted from
somewhere) with html markup tags, for example "<h1>Some Header</
h1><p>some text</p><p>some more</p>" can I explicitly say the content
type is text/html so that the receiving end renders correctly? Or if I
pasted some text which is already quoted-printable, e.g. have `=20'
etc inside, can I edit the content-type to add a transfer-encoding?

Thanks,
Kousik

group specific message IDs

I read here

http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_367.html

that I can generate my own message IDs like this:

(defun message-make-message-id()
   (concat "<"(message-unique-id)"@yourmachine.yourdomain.tld>"))

But how can I do this ONLY for specific groups?

Changing Value of `gnus-use-cache'

Out of ignorance, I have had `gnus-use-cache' set to `t' for a *long* time.

Rereading the documentation (info), indicates that a value of
`passive' would probably be better.  That value will only cache
articles that are "explicitly entered".

Some questions:

   If I change it to `passive', will the unnecessarily cached articles
   be automatically removed?  Or, must I do that myself.

   What does "explicitly entered" mean? ... only via the `!' and `?'
   commands?  What about `*'?

   Should I "tweak" the values of `gnus-cache-enter-articles' and/or
   `gnus-cache-remove-articles'?  Also, 'gnus-cacheable-groups'?

   Anything else I should watch out for if I make this change?

Reading the above leads me to realize that I probably should state
what I *want* to happen. 

Basically, I want to avoid any unnecessary caching (I'm using `nnml'
"under my home directory"), and be able to retain ("forever")
newsgroup articles (others?) that are of interest.

Writing the above (and referring back to the documentation) has given
me some good ideas of how to change my configuration ... however, I'm
still interested in hearing from others.

Ubuntu/Emacs22/Gnus

I decided to upgrade my office machine to the newest Ubuntu (8.04/Hardy).

Unfortunately, 'gnus' failed to work from the very start (problems
with 'gnus-load', ...).

Does anyone have Gnus running with Emacs22 on Ubuntu?

I removed Emacs22 and installed Emacs21 and Gnus is usable (it is what
I'm using now to post this article), but doesn't seem quite right".

Thanks for any ideas!
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Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA        

Distinguish new mail compose and reply?

Hello,

Is there any way I can set different parameters when composing a new
mail or composing a reply? AFAIK the message-mode-hook() gets called
in both cases. For example, I want to set "use-hard-newlines" when I
am writing a new mail, but don't want to send it when I am replying.

regards
Kousik Nandy

wrong display of quoted utf8 chars when 'format=flowed'

Hi!

In a recent days I noticed that when I receive some messages with
Croatian chars which display correctly, that when I do R (reply-yank),
the quoted Croatian characters are displayed with control-chars.

However, it does not happen with all the messages and by closer
inspection I noticed it happen with the messages which contains
'format=flowed' in the header.

Browsing on Gmane in gnus' archives I saw some posts from 2003
(e.g. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1750) but it looks
that the 'ghost' of the bug re-appeared?

Any hint?

Sincerely,
Gour

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Gnus ignoring ~/.authinfo for gmail

For whatever reason, gnus has been very temperamental with regards to
gmail's imap. In my ~/.gnus.el I have

(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
	     '(nnimap "gmail"
	       (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
	       (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
	       (nnimap-stream ssl)))

and in ~/.authinfo
machine imap.gmail.com login e-mail <at> gmail.com password psswd port 993

It's chmodded to 600, and yet, every time I start gnus it asks for my
username and password. Sometimes it even asks twice!

More troubling, at random times when I try to access my gmail inbox, I
get the error, Wrong type argument: stringp, nil from the function
nnimap-verify-uidvalidity. When this happens I curse a little, try
renaming .newsrc.eld, which doesn't work, and end up waiting until, for
no apparent reason, it starts working again. It makes me wonder if emacs
really is run by tiny men inside my computer, I'm so baffled.

Does anybody have an idea where I should look to fix this problem?
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Authinfo and nntpcache

I've encounterd a problem using No Gnus v0.11 to connect to an nntp
server that is running the nntpcache software (version 3.0.2 from
http://iq.org/~proff/nntpcache.org).

I set up the nntpcache  to require authentication, but despite the fact
that I have the proper authentication information in my ~/.authinfo file
for this server, gnus never initiates an authinfo sequence.

I believe that I have nntpcache set up correctly, because other
newsreaders manage to issue the authinfo and get me connected with no
problem.  Also, when I telnet to the nntp port of that nntpcache-based
server and manually issue the authinfo sequence, it works fine and gives
me access to all the groups.

Ideally, I'd like gnus to always send the authinfo sequence when connecting
to this nntp server. However, for some reason, gnus doesn't do this,
irrespective of the fact that I have an entry for this server in
~/.authinfo.

Is anyone here using gnus to connect to any nntpcache-based servers, and
if so, have you encountered and, hopefully, solved this problem?

I've already asked this question to the nntpcache maintainer. Nonetheless,
I'm also asking here in case one or more of you are familiar with this
issue.

Thanks in advance.

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