Expiring in agent directories and .agentview files

Expiring in agent directories and .agentview files

[Mike McEwan]

Hi,
  I seem to remember Lars maybe saying that the `gnus-agent-expire'
function was not perhaps working as well as it should and hence it
wasn't documented.

  This being the case, I was wondering how others using the agent to
read their news offline were expiring articles? I've been using
`gnus-agent-expire' and, with the exception of a few corrupted
.overview lines, it seems to do the job. However :-), although the
.overview lines are deleted along with their corresponding article
files in the news directories, I can't help but notice that my
.agentview files appear to carry on growing. 

  I currently deal with growing .history files with a cron job, but
.agentview files are presumably a little more important. Does anyone
know how things are supposed to be in respect of these files?

TIA
-- 
Mike. 

Re: Expiring in agent directories and .agentview files

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk> writes:

>   I currently deal with growing .history files with a cron job, but
> .agentview files are presumably a little more important. Does anyone
> know how things are supposed to be in respect of these files?

I certainly don't.

I'll be implementing real nnagent expiry this week, so I'd suggest not
doing anything about those until that happens.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen