James Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

>> often in a group, I want to handle a subset of articles as
>> auto-expirable and the rest as not.  For example, all my
>> mail from Amazon gets split into a group.  I want to keep
>> mails referring to an actual order forever, while I want to
>> set "we noticed you bought a toilet seat last week, do you
>> fancy another one?" mails as expirable.

>> Therefore, since time immemorial, I wanted to extend the
>> auto-expire group parameter by a third option, an (anony-
>> mous/named) function that looks at the current article and
>> then decides whether to mark it as expirable.

>> This would also allow to spell out an "archive policy" in
>> the form of an interactive function that would ask me "is
>> this article referring to an actual order?", thus implying
>> that articles that fulfill this criteria are kept (or not).

>> Has anyone ever implemented something like this?

> Why not, say, '& body <RET> some.*string <RET> E'?

Because that is the manual procedure that I want to auto-
mate?! :-)

Tim

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