Re: New agent code

[Denis Yakovlev <derek77@mail.ru>]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:


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> I just took a look back at the gnus-agent-expire prior to my changes.
> The code is rather convoluted.  It is quite possible that NOV entries
> were only expirable if you had first fetched the article. It appears
> that if you had fetched the article AND the expiration elapse time was
> reached, the NOV entries would be deleted when any of the following
> were true.
>
>     1) the article ID preceded the current active range
>     2) gnus-agent-expire-all is set
>     3) The article is read and not marked as ticked or dormant.
>
> I suspect that this behavior is probably close to being acceptable.
> From what I've seen in the preceding posts, some people are seeing a
> different behavior.  One that is not intended.  I'm just going to need
> more information before I can nail down what is wrong.

This behavior is not "probably close to being acceptable", it _is_
acceptable, I believe. Expiration (deletion from disk) of articles works
as described. Expiration of headers is the problem --- it happens
immediately. AND form not working.

Maybe I'm an idiot. But in the beginning of this thread was the very
same problem. Initially I thought of trivial "me too" posting...

> BTW,  I'm going to be offline until the 30th or 31st so please be
> patient with me.

Please be patient with us, with me particularly :) Great work.

-- 
Denis K.Y.