From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61539 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Agent expiration Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:21:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134570270 15508 80.91.229.2 (14 Dec 2005 14:24:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:24:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10071@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 14 15:24:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmXVu-0006wD-CL for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:21:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EmXVp-0005XY-00; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:21:45 -0600 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EmXVj-0005XT-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:21:39 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EmXVh-00070P-9b for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:21:39 -0600 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EmXVg-0007IG-00 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:21:36 +0100 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (jas@yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jBEELPNA024196 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:21:26 +0100 Original-To: Gregory Novak OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:21:051214:novak@ucolick.org::PRr4nLDPo0s1u55n:0UI4 X-Hashcash: 1:21:051214:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org::PgP7uqt0Dy2zJcLb:0DnJ X-Hashcash: 1:21:051214:ding@gnus.org::1slESuP4o+m98bXj:I8KB In-Reply-To: (Gregory Novak's message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:40:47 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on yxa-iv X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61539 gmane.emacs.help:31934 Archived-At: Gregory Novak writes: > A few things aren't clear to me about Agent expiration after reading > the manual. > > I'm using the agent basically as a local cache of my mail for the > nnimap backend. > > Q1: Agent expiration seems to be distinct from "normal" mail > expiration. True? Yes. > Q2: Stuff that's deleted when I run gnus-agent-expire will be deleted > off of my local disk without deleting it off of the imap folder. > True? Yes. > Q3: I just want the agent to mirror what's going on with my imap > folders. If I delete an article via "normal" expriation while > plugged, what happens to the agent copy of the message? It should be removed. I have experienced that the agent keep a copy anyway, but that would be a bug. > Q4: if the answer to Q3 is "nothing," is there a command to remove > messages from the agent that have disappeared from the imap server? > gnus-agent-expire doesn't (seem) to do what I want, given that it will > get rid of all messages older than some age. gnus-agent-regenerate-group may help (but may be harmful too, I don't really know). I usually just remove the entire Agent cache (~/News/agent/) from time to time when things have gotten out of whack. Gnus will cope gracefully. > Q5: Finally, is a question like this more appropriately posted to > ding@gnus.org, help-gnu-emacs@gnus.org, or somewhere else? The agent is still a moving target, and ding@gnus.org is probably the best place, especially if you are using Gnus from CVS.