Re: expiry-target

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Rod Whitby <list.ding@rwhitby.net> writes:

> > Does this mean that (with your patch in place) I could say:
> >  ((total-expire . t)
> >  (expiry-wait . 14)  
> >  (expiry-target . "nnml:TARGET")
> > 
> > In group params of a group and expirable stuff would show up in
> > nnml:TARGET in two weeks?
> 
> That's what I would expect.
> 

Sorry to report, with your patch in place, I see no results whatever
with these settings in nnml:cartman2:

;;; Editing the group parameters for `nnml:cartman2'.
;; Type `C-c C-c' after you've finished editing.

((to-address . "cartman-list@redhat.com")
 (total-expire . t)
 (expiry-wait . 20)
 (expiry-target . "nnml:TARGET"))


As I've decreased the expiry-wait period (now down to 5) messages are
being expired.   A `ls ~/Mail/cartman2|wc -l'  shows the decrease in
numbers but no nnml:TARGET is created.  

Creating nnml:TARGET by hand does not help.  Still no expired messages
appear there.

nnmail-expiry target is set like so:
nnmail-expiry-target's value is 
delete

> 'delete' - that is the default, and I override it with the group
> parameters for certain groups.  The patches make sure that this works
> as expected.
> 
> I have the following setting for mailing lists (including this one):
> 
> ((total-expire . t)
>  (expiry-target . delete)
>  (expiry-wait . 7))
> 
> ... and it works with the patch applied.

Why do you need to override `nnmail-expiry-target delete' with another
`delete' in group params?