Expiry still broken for nnml?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

I posted a question about this a few days ago. Steiner suggested some
workarounds, but no one even acknowledged that the behavior I'm seeing
is a bug. There's been some heat about expiry in the last few days, so
I'm hoping for better luck this time :-)

I'm running oort from CVS as of a couple of hours ago on Gnu Emacs 21.1.1.

Until recently (how recently, erm, I'm not sure), every time I left an
nnml group, gnus would happily grovel over the messages and process my
group-parameter expire settings, deleting appropriate mail.

But it doesn't do that anymore. It says "Expiring articles..." when I
leave, but it doesn't actually expire any of them. Even if I mark them
'E' explicitly. If I run gnus-summary-expire-articles-now by hand,
that works, but that's rather more aggressive than I usually want.

My group parameters (for ding in this case) look like this:

((timestamp 15679 2698)
 (to-list . "ding@gnus.org")
 (total-expire . t)
 (expiry-wait . 30)
 (expiry-target . delete))

If I enter the 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.

Help? I really want gnus to do what it used to.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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