* pgnus expiry?
@ 1998-12-13 5:05 Justin Sheehy
1998-12-13 8:17 ` Karl Eichwalder
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From: Justin Sheehy @ 1998-12-13 5:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
Am I the only one for whom expiry has ceased to do anything useful?
For a while I thought that I had broken it myself, but after some
experimentation, I don't believe that is the case.
For example... my toplevel topic has the total-expire parameter set to
t, and my emacs subtopic has expiry-wait set to 14. I have messages
in my ding group that are much more than two weeks old. Dating back
to things sent fairly early in the pgnus cycle, in fact.
(The fact that I set the group parameters in the topics has nothing to
do with the problem, really.)
Invoking expiry simply gives the "Expiring messages in nnml:ding...done"
message, doesn't delete anything, and then finishes. Quite quickly.
As much as I appreciate the speedup in expiry speed, disk isn't quite
that cheap. Any ideas?
--
Justin Sheehy
In a cloud bones of steel.
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* Re: pgnus expiry?
1998-12-13 5:05 pgnus expiry? Justin Sheehy
@ 1998-12-13 8:17 ` Karl Eichwalder
1998-12-13 9:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-13 11:21 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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From: Karl Eichwalder @ 1998-12-13 8:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:
| Am I the only one for whom expiry has ceased to do anything useful?
Here is says:
Expiring articles...
Deleting article /home/ke/Mail/mail/rest/848 in mail.rest
Deleting article /home/ke/Mail/mail/rest/849 in mail.rest
Expiring articles...done
and that's the truth ;-)
I'm using:
(setq gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups
(concat
"mail.dssslist\\|mail.ftp\\|mail.de\\|mail.fr"
"\\|mail.tei\\|mail.docbook\\|mail.gnus"
"\\|mail.pgsqlsql\\|mail.pgsqlgeneral\\|mail.pgsqlnovice"
"\\|mail.emacs-w3\\|mail.root")
nnmail-keep-last-article nil
nnmail-expiry-wait 14
gnus-permanently-visible-groups "^nnml:")
(setq nnmail-expiry-wait-function
(lambda (group)
(cond ((string= group "mail.private")
31)
((string= group "mail.junk")
1)
((string= group "important")
'never)
(t
6))))
--
Karl Eichwalder
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* Re: pgnus expiry?
1998-12-13 5:05 pgnus expiry? Justin Sheehy
1998-12-13 8:17 ` Karl Eichwalder
@ 1998-12-13 9:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-13 11:21 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1998-12-13 9:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:
> Invoking expiry simply gives the "Expiring messages in nnml:ding...done"
> message, doesn't delete anything, and then finishes. Quite quickly.
That's `C-c C-x'? If I do that, the old expirable messages are
expired... (nnml looks at file timestamps to determine whether a
message is old.)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: pgnus expiry?
1998-12-13 5:05 pgnus expiry? Justin Sheehy
1998-12-13 8:17 ` Karl Eichwalder
1998-12-13 9:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1998-12-13 11:21 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-13 18:12 ` Justin Sheehy
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From: Hrvoje Niksic @ 1998-12-13 11:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:
> Am I the only one for whom expiry has ceased to do anything useful?
Justin, total expiry works for me. Perhaps something subtle has
broken in your setup.
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