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
