From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45822 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nevin Kapur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [PATCH] nnmail-fancy-expiry-target Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:43:51 -0400 Organization: Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87sn2fiznh.fsf@hal.Olympus.INVALID> <87eldyajuu.fsf@hal.Olympus.INVALID> <87wuripnnr.fsf@hal.Olympus.INVALID> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027698738 17996 127.0.0.1 (26 Jul 2002 15:52:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Y7O1-0004g1-00 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:52:14 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17Y7Mf-0000eT-00; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:50:49 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:51:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA28259 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:51:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 14564 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2002 15:50:30 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14559 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2002 15:50:30 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by gnus.org with SMTP; 26 Jul 2002 15:50:30 -0000 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Y7Ly-0004Zs-00 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:50:06 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Y7FZ-0004Cg-00 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:43:29 +0200 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.ding Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fermat.mts.jhu.edu Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027698209 14193 128.220.17.18 (26 Jul 2002 15:43:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:43:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: #i!d%y+1tilG}1ua9z&9waMLqE>H+;pUwWFetZe]4uWiv;VE:GHLnT1\Gj]>l^(]R#}sD@E"(@?vMv,yb@`?32;i~D$6x6m*%!3gPyp-rb$}.%QpxZ!3Y+jESN5[s7SL_68Sc`Aek)A$M|h++b/2VjR.k+Tw4X+0a%:K-kcUeMZ(rs?}v\eG({5J&IPS User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter, i686-pc-linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:xkwYm5PWXCWMQqY4tquSO3wtZPs= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45822 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45822 "Davide G.M.Salvetti" writes: > [Nevin, I seem to have problems posting to ding. Will you please check > if this message also shows there, as it should? Thanks.] I am responding to this through ding, so your posting did go through. >>>>>> "Nevin" == Nevin Kapur writes: > > Nevin> The patch I posted yesterday will work around this by ignoring > Nevin> such empty buffers and more generally, non-existent headers. > > Ok. Yet there are two problems still. > > 1. If the target (nnimap) group where expired articles should go doesn't > already exists, the articles will be deleted instead (with no error > signaled to the user). This seems to be an nnimap issue - it does not create groups on the fly. For nnfolder non-existent groups are created if they don't exist. > 2. If you have a large hole in the article number sequence (say, you > have an IMAP group with a three months old ticked article, then a > large gap of expired articles and then some new articles), the > expiring process takes for ever. I guess that's because Gnus request > a lot of non existing articles from the IMAP server, even if it needs > not to. I've seen this too. I don't know how to fix this. -Nevin