Re: Continuing struggle with expiry

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
|> What function actually cleans up articles marked expired that are older
|> than expiry-wait days?
|
| nn*-request-expire-articles.

Uncle! I like to think I enjoy elisp hackery as much as the next guy,
but the more I investigate this problem, the less sense it makes.

Expiry isn't working for me because nnml-request-expire-articles calls
nnmail-expired-article-p with mod-time set to '(15679 803). And when
nnmail-expired-article-p asks for the (time-since '(15679 803)), time-since
goes bang:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
  time-since((15679 803))
  eval((time-since (quote (15679 803))))

That is, the byte-compiled, auto-loaded version of time-since goes
bang. If I copy the definition of time-since into *scratch* and
compile it myself, which I did initially in order to debug it further,
it runs just fine, thank you very much.

BTW, "goes bang" isn't strictly true. nnmail-expired-article-p calls
(ignore-errors (time-less-p ...)) so the error in time-since is
ignored, and nil is returned, meaning that no article is expired.

Help!?

For the record, I'm running GNU Emacs 21.1.1 and ognus from CVS this morning.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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