Re: Expiry still broken for nnml?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> 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.

Does removing the expiry-wait parameter help?  I'm not sure what
semantic that variable and total expiring actually should imply.