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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Robert Epprecht <epprecht@sunweb.ch> writes:
> 
> > > > If I do 'M-x gnus-agent-expire' I thought that all read articles
> > > > older than gnus-agent-expire-days would be expired, but I just
> > > > discovered, that this seems not to be the case here.

> I've had a peek at my Agent directories, and they don't seem to
> contain any ancient articles.
> 
> Months ago...  Could it be that the articles were downloaded before
> the Agent makeover?  The structure of the history file and stuff
> changed a while back.  Articles that arrived before that time are
> ignored by the expiry process, I think.

That sounds very likely to be the explanation.

Robert Epprecht