Re: expiry: when does expiry-wait start?

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Okay.  I think all backends should do it the same way.  Somebody
> (Lars?  ShengHuo?) should decide on what time to use, then it should
> be written down somewhere, then all the backends need to be examined
> and possibly changed so that they use the same time.
> 
> Or should it stay the way it is -- every backend does it its own way?

I think backends should do it the same way whenever it's not too hard
to do so - i.e., no gratuitous differences.  But each backend should
definitely document how it measures age, so users can take that into
account when deciding which backend to use, and so they won't be
surprised.  (I've just updated nnmaildir's documentation to include
this.)


paul