Re: multi-email gnus setup questions

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Benjamin Slade <slade@uta.edu> writes:

> news@kloecker.org (Jens Klöcker) writes:
>
>> I have one. It's looking like this:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>       '((nnimap "work"
>>                 SOME CONFIG OPTIONS
>>                 (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
>>                 (nnimap-split-methods 'nnimap-split-fancy)
>>                 (nnimap-split-fancy
>>                  (| SOME FANCY RULES HERE
>>                   )
>>                  )
>>                 )
>>         (nnimap "private"
>>                 SOME CONFIG OPTIONS
>>                 (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
>>                 (nnimap-split-methods 'nnimap-split-fancy)
>>                 (nnimap-split-fancy
>>                  (| SOME OTHER FANCY RULES HERE
>>                   )
>>                  )
>>                 )
>>                )
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>
> Ok, that worked for me. Many thanks.
>
> I'm still stuck on getting my "expired" mail to move to [Gmail]/Bin
>
>   (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>         '((nnimap "work"
>                   (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
>                   ....
>                   (nnmail-expiry-target "nnimap+work:[Gmail]/Bin")            
>                               
>                 (nnmail-expiry-wait immediate)
>                   )
>                )
>           )
>
> I've tried changing "nnmail-expiry-target" to "nnimap-expiry-target";
> I've tried changing "/Bin" to "/Trash" (but it should be former for my
> account); I've tried changing "/Bin" to ".Bin", all the various
> permutations of these.
>
> As well, I tried various ways of setting up
> ```nnmail-fancy-expiry-target```. But I couldn't get any of these to
> work. Even with ```nnmail-expiry-wait immediate``` set. The messages are
> removed from the INBOX, and marked read, but are not moved to
> [Gmail]Bin(~Trash).

`nnmail-expiry-targets' isn't a server variable, just a regular
variable. Also, there's no `nnimap-expiry-targets', and
`nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets' only lets you base expiration on group
names, not backends. Here's what I do (outside of the server
definition):

(setq nnmail-expiry-target 'my-expire-gmail-imap-message)

(defun my-expire-gmail-imap-message (group)
  "In gmail-based imap groups, expiry should happen by moving the
  message to the corresponding [Gmail]/Trash folder."
  (if (string-match "nnimap\\+\\(several\\|gmail\\|backends\\):" group)
    (format "nnimap+%s:[Gmail]/Trash" (match-string 1 group))
  'delete))

That expires everything in a Gmail imap account to the corresponding
[Gmail]/Trash folder.

Hope that helps,
Eric