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Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>:
>
>> Hm. There is two kinds of expiry in a agent group, one is the normal
>> expiring in the real backend via E marks (nnimap), which should work
>> (does it?),
>
> If you mean: "does it work if you run expiry when plugged?", the
> answer is yes.
>
> If you mean: "if you run expiry when unplugged, are the results
> transferred to the nnimap group, when you go plugged?", the answer was
> no, the last time I tried.

Gnus should skip expiring offline servers, shouldn't it?

[...]

>> (Btw, wouldn't it be nice if it was possible to enable the agent via
>> customize instead of forcing people to manually edit ~/.gnus?)
>
> You can toggle server agent status interactively in the server buffer,
> if that's what you're thinking about...?

One possible solution is customizing the gnus-agent variable and
running gnus-agentize if gnus-agent is t after loading ~/.gnus.  

ShengHuo