From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4258 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnmail-expiry-wait-function: broke, or how-to? Date: 04 Dec 1995 13:29:45 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: References: <9512042022.AA12047@charney.cdc.noaa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.28) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145030 29018 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA27670 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:07:53 -0800 Original-Received: from miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 22:29:30 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA27315; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 13:29:47 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ In-Reply-To: mdb@cdc.noaa.gov's message of 04 Dec 1995 12:22:56 -0800 Original-Lines: 26 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.17/XEmacs 19.13 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4258 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4258 nnmail-expiry-wait-function is called with a newsgroup name sans method. (setq nnmail-expiry-wait-function (lambda (group) (cond ((string= "nnml:lists.zsh" group) 30) Replace the comparison with: ((string= "lists.zsh" group) and you'll be O.K. The example in the manual shows something like this without commentary, perhaps it should say something explicit. In order for expiration to occur, you must manually set the expired mark with the ``E'' command in the *Summary* buffer. > I see there is a variable called `gnus-newsgroup-auto-expire', whose > value is nil by default, but it's doc-string: ... > makes me a bit leery of messing with it. I'm leery of using it, but for other reasons. Maybe after September Gnus becomes Gnus 5.2 ... Regards, -- steve@miranova.com baur