Re: Expiry still broken for nnml?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

>>>>>> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:20:29 -0400, Norman Walsh
>>>>>> <ndw@nwalsh.com> said:
>
>> 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.
>
> Have you tried reading any of those old messages to be sure they are
> actually on disk?  You may have a messed up overview file.  That used
> to happen to me all too often when I used nnml (and even now, with
> nnimap, I find it occasionally necessary to delete overview files so
> that summaries don't show old messages that don't really exist any
> more).

If you can reproduce when those articles got deleted and were still in
the overview, perhaps it could be fixed.  Hm.  Could it be that those
articles was deleted using another IMAP client?