From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12191
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: Expiring articles in an nnfolder.. novice question
Date: 20 Sep 1997 20:34:13 +0200
Message-ID: <m2iuvvj0m2.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no>
References: <8790wt0xwo.fsf@virgil.koldfront.dk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151770 2383 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:09:30 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:09:30 +0000 (UTC)
Return-Path: <ding-request@ifi.uio.no>
Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16])
	by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA25101
	for <steve@altair.xemacs.org>; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:16:41 -0700
Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2])
	by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA04761
	for <steve@xemacs.org>; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 15:12:48 -0500 (CDT)
Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) 
	id <VAA17003@ifi.uio.no> for <ding@ifi.uio.no> ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 21:08:57 +0200
Original-Received: (qmail 3954 invoked by uid 504); 20 Sep 1997 19:08:56 -0000
Original-Received: (qmail 3951 invoked from network); 20 Sep 1997 19:08:55 -0000
Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2)
  by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 20 Sep 1997 19:08:55 -0000
Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (larsi@xyplex02.uio.no [129.240.154.22]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) 
	id <VAA16990@ifi.uio.no> for <ding@gnus.org> ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 21:08:53 +0200
Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id VAA28522; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 21:11:31 +0200
Original-To: ding@gnus.org
In-Reply-To: Adam Sjoegren's message of "19 Sep 1997 23:57:43 +0200"
X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.8/Emacs 19.34
X-Face: &w!^oO<W.WBH]FsTP:P0f9X6M-ygaADlA_)eF$<UwQzj7:C=Gi<a?/_4$LX^@$Qq7-O&XHp
 lDARi8e8iT<(A$LWAZD*xjk^')/wI5nG;1cNB>~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\<y
Original-Lines: 16
Original-Xref: proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no drafts:121
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12191
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12191

Adam Sjoegren <asjo@diku.dk> writes:

> Now, I keep copies of my outgoing messages in an nnfolder. I have to
> clean up in there too, sometimes, to stay within budget. I try the
> same thing, mark articles I don't want to keep as expirable and
> perform gnus-summary-expire-articles-now. But the articles are not
> deleted.

The definition of the virtual nnfolder archive server 
(`gnus-message-archive-method') has `nnfolder-inhibit-expiry' bound to
t.  So you should set that variable to a method that doesn't include
that form.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen