From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45827 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Expiry still broken for nnml? Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:45:41 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87k7nkdgj6.fsf@nwalsh.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027701975 27574 127.0.0.1 (26 Jul 2002 16:46:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Y8EH-0007Ad-00 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:46:13 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17Y8E9-0001GI-00; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:46:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA28385 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:46:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 15887 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2002 16:45:44 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15882 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2002 16:45:43 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 26 Jul 2002 16:45:43 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6QGjfkd030705; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:45:41 +0200 Original-To: Norman Walsh Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 020726:ndw@nwalsh.com:78f76d2e50d10ccb X-Hashcash: 020726:ding@gnus.org:ef7d978e4841aa86 In-Reply-To: <87k7nkdgj6.fsf@nwalsh.com> (Norman Walsh's message of "Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:20:29 -0400") Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45827 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45827 Norman Walsh 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.