Example: A Custom Catch-up Rule

    

This is a very simple rule. It will mark articles more than x days old as "read"
Open the Rules Editor (Tools - Rules)
1. Conditions: Add a condition w i th "Article was posted more than x days ago" so it looks like this:
Posted > 7 days ago
2. Action: Mark as Read
3. Do NOT enable this rule for incoming articles.
When you are ready to catch-up - run the rule manually on the current group from the Rule Bar. You could also run it manually on multiple groups at once.

v    Important note about manually running rules from the Rules Bar:

If you select zero or one article, Gravity applies the rule to every article in the current group. If more than one article is selected, Gravity applies the rule only to the selected articles.

Another way to run the rule is to use the command Manually Apply a Rule with the button or from the right click menu in the group pane. You have more options, but the Rules Bar is the fastest way to manually run a rule on the current newsgroup.

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