Expiry not working anymore for nnml?

Expiry not working anymore for nnml?

[Bjorn Halvor Solberg]

For my nnml:misc group, I have no group parameters save for formatting
the line:

((gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z%~(form (gnus-extra-header 'To))@%~(cut-left 2)~(max-right 6)~(pad 6)o %I%(%[%4L: %-20,20f%]%) %s\n"))

However, as of about a month ago, Gnus stopped  deleting the articles I
have ticked as expirable ("E") after a week like it used to do, and like
the info says it should do:

" To make Gnus get rid of your unwanted mail, you have to mark the
articles as "expirable".  This does not mean that the articles will
disappear right away, however.  In general, a mail article will be
deleted from your system if, 1) it is marked as expirable, AND 2) it is
more than one week old."

I see the same behaviour for my other nnml groups as well, and I'd
appreciate some pointers to where to look for the a solution to the
problem, or a solution if anyone else has experienced this.  Currently
I'm using Emacs-20.4.1 and pgnus-0.96.

Thank you in advance,

Bjorn.

Re: Expiry not working anymore for nnml?

[Bjorn Halvor Solberg]

Simon Kittle writes:

>>>>>> "Bjorn" == Bjorn Halvor Solberg <bhso@pacbell.net> writes:
Bjorn> For my nnml:misc group, I have no group parameters save for
Bjorn> formatting the line:

Bjorn> ((gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z%~(form (gnus-extra-header
Bjorn> 'To))@%~(cut-left 2)~(max-right 6)~(pad 6)o %I%(%[%4L:
Bjorn> %-20,20f%]%) %s\n"))

Bjorn> However, as of about a month ago, Gnus stopped deleting the
Bjorn> articles I have ticked as expirable ("E") after a week like
Bjorn> it used to do, and like the info says it should do:

Bjorn> I'm using Emacs-20.4.1 and pgnus-0.96.

> Sorry, no solution, just to say I have exactly the same problem,
> except that I have never been able to get it to work.  It is a strange
> problem, and I can't figure it out, it has never worked for me using:
[...]

Sorry, no solution for something that has never worked. :-) (Or should
that be :-( ) I just thought I'd follow up with the solution to my
problems.  Apparently a couple of the messages in the group were made
during Y2K-testing, and thus accidentally had the year 2000 embedded in
the dates.  I manually edited these to say 1999 instead, and the group
now expires correctly.  Wether this has exposed a Gnus bug or feature, I
am not a competent enough a lisp hacker to say.

Bjorn.
(still a wannabe :)