From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45808 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Norman Walsh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Expiry still broken for nnml? Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:20:29 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87k7nkdgj6.fsf@nwalsh.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027542265 20439 127.0.0.1 (24 Jul 2002 20:24:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17XSgI-0005JO-00 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:24:23 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17XSdK-0002Ci-00; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:21:18 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:21:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA24338 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:21:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 20496 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2002 20:20:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20491 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2002 20:20:58 -0000 Original-Received: from dc-mx10.cluster1.charter.net (HELO mx10.cluster1.charter.net) (209.225.8.20) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Jul 2002 20:20:58 -0000 Original-Received: from [68.112.234.9] (HELO mercury) by mx10.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 43366475 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:19:42 -0400 Original-Received: from ndw by mercury with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17XScY-00069j-00 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:20:30 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-URL: http://nwalsh.com/ Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45808 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45808 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 -- Norman Walsh | Extinction, n. The raw material out of http://nwalsh.com/ | which theology created the future | state.--Ambrose Bierce