From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: gnus-agent-expire not expiring all nntp groups?
Date: 20 Apr 2000 23:25:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vh1cxy67.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wkpuu1gxft.fsf@blue.sea.net>
posting-list@MailAndNews.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:
> But I have tons of other groups in NNTP backend (that's covered
> by agent) and it doesn't seem to expire those groups
It seems to work for me...
> Reading gnus-agent-expire is ..uhm.. not trivial. Someone should
> break it into several manageable parts.
It's that way because it tries to be efficient.
> I would like to know what Gnus scans, so how do I get a list of
> groups that Gnus thinks are included in expiration process?
It basically goes through the Agent history file and deletes
everything there that's "old", after filtering the definition of
"old" on a per group basis. If the messages aren't in the history
file, they won't be deleted, I think.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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