Re: nnmail-expiry-wait-function: broke, or how-to?

[pluim@xylint.co.uk (Robert Pluim)]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov> writes:
[correct setting of nnmail-expiry-wait-function deleted]

    Mark> But articles in my nnml mail folders are not being expired,
    Mark> e.g., I still have an (unticked) article dated 13 Nov in my
    Mark> lists.fvwm mail group, well beyond the 10 days I want to
    Mark> keep it. (BTW, will ticked articles be excluded from the
    Mark> expiry process?).

Are you explicitly marking the articles for expiry in the *Summary*
buffer by using 'E' ? (BTW ticked articles will be excluded, if by
ticked you mean marked using 'U')

    Mark> So either (a) I'm misunderstanding how this works, or (b)
    Mark> it's broke.  But it can't possibly be (b), so it must be
    Mark> (a).

It's (a), I think.

    Mark> Must I put gnus-group-expire-articles() on a hook function?
    Mark> If so, any suggestions on which one? Ideally, I'd like Gnus
    Mark> to assume auto-expiry of the groups I've gone to the trouble
    Mark> of listing in nnmail-expiry-wait-function, but I can do
    Mark> anything; I just need a bit more info.

You don't mention which version of ding you're using, but here goes
anyway.

You need to set gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups to be a regexp which
matches the groups in which gnus will automatically *mark* articles
for expiry (note this is not the same as expiring them). You can then
expire articles in the group by using 'B e', or adding a hook,
probably to gnus-summary-prepare-exit-hook. (this is done by default
in some versions of ding)

See also the documentation for gnus-summary-prepare-exit-hook.

Hope this helps.

Robert