Re: nnmail-expiry-wait-function: broke, or how-to?

[mdb@cdc.noaa.gov (Mark Borges)]

>> On 04 Dec 1995 13:29:45 -0800,
>> Steven L Baur(sb) wrote:
sb> nnmail-expiry-wait-function is called with a newsgroup name sans method.
sb> (setq nnmail-expiry-wait-function (lambda (group)
sb> 			       (cond
sb> 				((string= "nnml:lists.zsh" group)
sb> 				 30)
sb> Replace the comparison with:
sb> 				((string= "lists.zsh" group)
sb> and you'll be O.K.  The example in the manual shows something like
sb> this without commentary, perhaps it should say something explicit.

It doesn't seem to matter -- it appears to work fine with the method
left in. Should it? Lars?

sb> In order for expiration to occur, you must manually set the expired
sb> mark with the ``E'' command in the *Summary* buffer.

Hmm, after Robert's mail prompted me to set the variable `g-a-e-n', I
get the `E' mark automatically set now after I read the article if I
set it thusly,

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups's value is "nnml:lists\\.*"

Documentation:
*Groups in which to automatically mark read articles as expirable.
If non-nil, this should be a regexp that should match all groups in
which to perform auto-expiry.  This only makes sense for mail groups.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(BTW, do I need another (or less) backwhack? I'm trying to match the
string nnml:lists.*, where `.' and `.' are literal.)

But note that it is not "retro-active", in that I have to expose all
the old articles and read or mark them to expire them.

Anyway, thanks for the help.

  -mb-