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From: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nuke unread messages
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 18:59:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874nb575oj.fsf@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3haf7atsb.fsf@stories.gnus.org>

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:


> `nnmail-expiry-wait' is what controls expiry.

>> On a given nnimap group in the *Group* buffer, running C-u M-x
>> gnus-group-delete-articles offer to delete some articles. However, after
>> having answered yes, the messages are still there.
>
> Works for me.  I just tried it on an nnimap group, and it deleted all
> messages in that group that were older than seven days.

I have nnmail-expiry-wait set at 7 also but the problem remains. Do you
run gnus-group-delete-articles from the *Group* buffer or the *Summary*
buffer ? Could the different behaviour be due to some agent settings
about expiry ?

Julien.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-04 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-19 14:35 Julien Cubizolles
2013-08-01 21:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-02  5:56   ` Julien Cubizolles
2013-08-02 12:52     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-03  6:54       ` Julien Cubizolles
2013-08-03 11:38         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-04 16:59           ` Julien Cubizolles [this message]
2013-08-05  2:41             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-05  6:06               ` Julien Cubizolles
2013-08-05 17:58                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-06  5:16                   ` Julien Cubizolles
2013-08-06 14:03                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-07  8:34                       ` Julien Cubizolles

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