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>>>>> "M" == Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu> writes:

    M> Hi, Now that we know that nnmail-expiry-wait-function should
    M> not contain the method ("other" rather than "nnml:other"), does

Do we? I thought it didn't matter:

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

    Lars> mdb@cdc.noaa.gov (Mark Borges) writes:
    >> It doesn't seem to matter -- it appears to work fine with the
    >> method left in. Should it? Lars?

    Lars> No, it shouldn't.

I took that as "it shouldn't matter".

    M> it make sense to have gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups set to
    M> "^nnml:"?

That works for me, though I have "nnml:" in my wait function as well.

    M> 	Or do I have to maintain the list by hand? Somewhare in thed
    M> documentation I read that the forst element in the newsrc.eld
    M> is the group name, and that certainly contains nnml: prefix.

The code has this (at least for Gnus-5.0.12, I haven't tried sgnus) in
gnus.el:

      ;; Check whether auto-expire is to be done in this group.
      (setq gnus-newsgroup-auto-expire
	    (or (and (stringp gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups)
		     (string-match gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups group))
		(memq 'auto-expire (nth 5 info))))

so it should be OK without the method, and (if group includes the
method, which I think it does) with the method as well.

  -mb-