Expiring articles in an nnfolder.. novice question

Expiring articles in an nnfolder.. novice question

[Adam Sjoegren]

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I'm on a tight budget. Byte-wise. My inbox is in nnbabyl format, and
messages that I don't care to keep I mark with an 'E', and
occasionally I do a 'B M-C-e' (especially if someone sends me a large
email).

Now, I keep copies of my outgoing messages in an nnfolder. I have to
clean up in there too, sometimes, to stay within budget. I try the
same thing, mark articles I don't want to keep as expirable and
perform gnus-summary-expire-articles-now. But the articles are not
deleted.

Am I missing something? Am I not allowed to remove articles from
nnfolders, or what?


  Thanks for your time,

     Adam.

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Re: Expiring articles in an nnfolder.. novice question

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Adam Sjoegren <asjo@diku.dk> writes:

> Now, I keep copies of my outgoing messages in an nnfolder. I have to
> clean up in there too, sometimes, to stay within budget. I try the
> same thing, mark articles I don't want to keep as expirable and
> perform gnus-summary-expire-articles-now. But the articles are not
> deleted.

The definition of the virtual nnfolder archive server 
(`gnus-message-archive-method') has `nnfolder-inhibit-expiry' bound to
t.  So you should set that variable to a method that doesn't include
that form.

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Re: Expiring articles in an nnfolder.. novice question

[Adam Sjoegren]

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

 Lars> The definition of the virtual nnfolder archive server
 Lars> (`gnus-message-archive-method') has `nnfolder-inhibit-expiry'
 Lars> bound to t.  So you should set that variable to a method that
 Lars> doesn't include that form.

Ahh, thats why..

Hmmm. Perhaps the correct way is not to force Gnus expire them now,
but to actually delete them by hand instead. That's what I want,
really.

I'll think do that instead. Makes more sense.


  Thanks,

    Adam.

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Adam Sjøgren                                         asjo@diku.dk
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