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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.
> > 
> > Well, age is here computed from when the articles were slurped into
> > the Agent.  Could that explain what you're seeing?
> 
> No, they were downloaded and read months ago.

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.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen