Re: nnmaildir, expiry problem

[Sean Rima <spamtrap@tcob1.net>]

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On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Paul Jarc thusly discussed the words of the
Internet Oracle:

> Sean Rima <spamtrap@tcob1.net> wrote:
>> (setq nnmail-expiry-wait-function
> ...
>> What else do I need to do or can you not expire mail whilst using
>> nnmaildir.
> 
> You can, but nnmaildir doesn't look at nnmail-* unless you tell it to
> (via the group parameters that nnmaildir *does* look at).  nnmaildir
> is Different.
> 
> (add-to-list 'gnus-parameters
>              '("" (expire-age . [(your-expire-age-function)])))
> (defun your-expire-age-function ()
>   (if nnmail-expiry-wait-function
>       (* 86400 ;; seconds per day
>          (nnmail-expiry-wait-function
>            (gnus-group-real-name gnus-newsgroup-name)))
>     nnmail-expiry-wait))
> 
> I'll see how much it would impact the existing nnmaildir code to make
> this the default when the expire-age parameter is not set, so you
> could pretend nnmaildir looks directly at nnmail-*.
> 

I will try both yours and Kai's suggestions and see what the outcome is
:)

Sean
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