From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82851 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: gnus-agent-expire seems to expire more messages than it should? Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:30:33 +1030 Message-ID: <87fw1tkb9a.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358834524 16135 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2013 06:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:02:04 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31117@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 22 07:02:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TxWw7-0006sz-6N for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:02:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TxWtz-00026S-4W; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:07 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TxWtw-00026I-Iq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:04 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TxWts-0002BI-OL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:03 -0600 Original-Received: from tx2ehsobe001.messaging.microsoft.com ([65.55.88.11] helo=tx2outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TxWto-0004Gi-S4 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:59:57 +0100 Original-Received: from mail14-tx2-R.bigfish.com (10.9.14.245) by TX2EHSOBE001.bigfish.com (10.9.40.21) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.225.23; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:59:50 +0000 Original-Received: from mail14-tx2 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail14-tx2-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564CC16029C for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:59:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:157.56.250.229;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPV:NLI;H:AMSPRD0111HT001.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com;RD:none;EFVD:NLI X-SpamScore: -1 X-BigFish: PS-1(zzbb2dI4015Izz1ee6h1de0h1d18h1202h1e76h1d1ah1d2ahzzz2dh2a8h668h839h8e2h8e3hd24he5bhf0ah1288h12a5h12a9h12bdh12e5h137ah13b6h1441h1504h1537h153bh162dh1631h16a6h1758h18e1hbe9i1155h) Original-Received: from mail14-tx2 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail14-tx2 (MessageSwitch) id 1358834388652199_401; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from TX2EHSMHS010.bigfish.com (unknown [10.9.14.253]) by mail14-tx2.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B4A5180089 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from AMSPRD0111HT001.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com (157.56.250.229) by TX2EHSMHS010.bigfish.com (10.9.99.110) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.225.23; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:59:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost (202.158.216.33) by pod51002.outlook.com (10.242.75.162) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.16.257.4; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:59:43 +0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [202.158.216.33] X-UCLLIVE-SCLRULE: HASRUN X-OriginatorOrg: ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82851 Archived-At: Hello, at some point recently, I realised that my agent directory was using up over 2GB. Not a big deal, as such, but I thought I could clean things up a little. I had a look at gnus-agent-expire and realised that expiration of articles did not necessarily clean up the agent cache. So I executed this function. Success: I freed up a lot of space. However, I seem to have freed up rather more than I expected. I have ,----[ C-h v gnus-agent-expire-all RET ] | gnus-agent-expire-all is a variable defined in `gnus-agent.el'. | Its value is nil | | Documentation: | If non-nil, also expire unread, ticked and dormant articles. | If nil, only read articles will be expired. | | You can customize this variable. | | [back] `---- which tells me that only *read* articles would be expired. The gnus agent seems to have expired all kinds of read articles as well, essentially behaving as if I had set gnus-agent-expire-all to something other than nil. Am I misunderstanding something or have I missed another configuration variable? I haven't lost anything, obviously, but all my expired *unread* articles now need to be re-loaded. No big deal but I am curious! I am using gnus up-to-date from a day or so ago. Thanks, eric -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D : in Emacs 24.3.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.6 : BBDB version 3.02 ($Date: 2013/01/13 22:41:36 $)