From: Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com>
Cc: Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: "external" expire?
Date: 20 Sep 1996 09:46:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ocrohj1ti2l.fsf@spssunp.spspme.ml.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Mark Eichin's message of 20 Sep 1996 01:09:53 -0400
Mark Eichin writes:
> Has anyone attempted to either "instrument" expire, so that the files
> that would be expired can be handed off to a backup system instead, or
> alternately come up with a way of doing the expiration outside of
> gnus?
I imagine that doing a defadvice to capture the `delete-file' function
would probably be the simplest. The following would probably work for
nnmail-related backends (nnml, mh):
(defadvice nnml-request-expire-articles (around instrument activate)
"Advised to do a different kind of delete."
(let ((nnmail-delete-file-function me:instrument-expire-function))
ad-do-it))
;; example function
(defvar me:instrument-expire-function
'(lambda (article)
(message "deleting %s" article)
(delete-file article))
"Instrumentation of expire-article.")
Look at the code to `nnml-request-expire-articles' in nnml.el for a
concept of what I am doing.
--
Colin
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