Re: nuke unread messages

[Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>]

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

> So these articles (73-102) are old, but they aren't deleted?  What does
> ls -l on the files say?

I think that's the problem. I created this group for testing and copied
old (received more than a year ago) messages in it. But the files
themselves are new (less than a week ago). When I set nnmail-expiry-wait
to 1, the messages are indeed deleted.

I was assuming that the old/new propriety was referring to the date in
the headers of the message itself and there seems to be a confusion in
gnus-group-delete-articles also since it proposes to delete them
(implying they are old) but refuses to actually do it (as if they are
new).

Anyway, for a real use case, it's working as I want it to be : removing
all old articles in a group even if they have not been read.

Thanks for your help in investigating this.

Julien.