Expiry changes?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

I must have missed a memo. I've been running oort for a while and
expiry has been working the way I expect (delete all my old read
mail). But I noticed the other day that it wasn't working. So I
upgraded from CVS yesterday. No change. So I read some archived mail
in ding (there was quite a bit as it hasn't been expiring :-) and
changed a few group parameters. No change. Hmmm.

My group parameters for ding look like this:

((timestamp 15670 38322)
 (to-list . "ding@gnus.org")
 (total-expire . t)
 (expiry-wait . 30)
 (expiry-target . delete))

If I enter the (nnml) group with C-u space, I see lots of old mail
(some more than six weeks old). Most of it marked 'O', but some of it
marked 'E' (from when I fiddled with auto-expire, I think). When I
leave the group, none of it gets deleted.

Obvious user error, probably. But not obvious to me, alas.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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