Re: Expiring spam groups

[Dimitre Liotev <mlist@rogers.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On 23 Dec 2006, mlist@rogers.com wrote:
>
>> I still do not understand why the expiry mark "E" disappears from the
>> articles in my spam group. 
>>
>> I set up my spam group so:
>>
>> (add-to-list 'spam-junk-mailgroups "nnimap+localhost:spam")
>>
>> When I get mail, procmail splits it and puts the spam in a "spam" mbox
>> file which is one of my IMAP folders. (I use the crm114 spam filter and
>> the dovecot IMAP server)
>>
>> Now when I go into the spam group in Gnus (that is the "spam" IMAP
>> folder), all new spam is marked as spam ("$"). When I exit the group and
>> then open it again after a short time, I see that the same articles
>> which were marked as spam are now marked as expired ("E"). But when some
>> more time passes, and I open the spam group a few more times, I see that
>> the "E" mark has disappeared from the older spam articles - so my spam
>> group keeps growing.
>>
>> The Gnus documentation says that expired articles are deleted after some
>> time - but in my spam group expired articles become "unexpired" again,
>> and so far I haven't found out why this happens.
>
> What do you want to happen to the spam-marked articles?
>
> 1) delete
> 2) mark as expired
> 3) process with a spam processor
> 4) move to another group
> 5) a combination of 1 through 4
>
> If you explain what you expect, it's easier to help you.
>
> Your expired articles are not being deleted.  You need to look at the
> group expiry parameters and set them the way you want.  Right now, it
> seems that only (2) in the list above is happening.
>
> Ted


Hi Ted,

I want the expired articles to disappear in one week. I thought that
this is the default behavior and that I do not have to add the
"auto-expire" or "total-expire" parameters to the group.

Here is the relevant Info documentation:

(info "(Gnus)Expiring Mail")

====
"   To make Gnus get rid of your unwanted mail, you have to mark the
articles as "expireable".  (With the default key bindings, this means
that you have to type `E'.)  This does not mean that the articles will
disappear right away, however.  In general, a mail article will be
deleted from your system if, 1) it is marked as expireable, AND 2) it is
more than one week old."
====

So according to this documentation if an article is marked as expireable
it should be deleted in one week or so, even if you do not set any group
parameters.

Otherwise I have set the auto-expire parameter on some of my other mail
groups and it works - but I expected that expired articles should be
deleted without this.

Anyway thanks for the help - I will simply set the "auto-expire"
parameter on my "spam" group and it should work. 

regards,
-- 
Dimitre Liotev