From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49301 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Settings for using the agent as a cache Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:14:21 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042722863 29098 80.91.224.249 (16 Jan 2003 13:14:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Z9qe-0007Yp-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:14:20 +0100 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 18Z9rS-00078i-00; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:15:10 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:16:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA13163 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:15:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 89477 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2003 13:14:53 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 89472 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2003 13:14:52 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 16 Jan 2003 13:14:52 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Z9yn-0008Qo-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:22:45 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.12.206.141 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1042723365 32413 216.12.206.141 (16 Jan 2003 13:22:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jan 2003 13:22:45 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) Emacs/21.2 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iZlP8ySfulXd1eU2MlN63L5xZsw= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49301 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49301 Niklas Morberg writes: > Niklas Morberg writes: > >> I'm still confused on whether I should use the agent or >> the cache, though. I'll stick with the agent for now and >> see how it pans out. > > Whoa. This did not work as I expected. Here's the situation: > > 1. I have a local archive (one month's worth) of the ding > group in: > > /home/niklas/News/agent/nnimap/mailserver.name.com/lists_ding > > 2. Checking the dir with ls reveals a lot of old articles. > This is good. I don't want to keep the archive on the > mailserver, so I change the group parameter `expiry-wait' > from 31 to 7 and expire the group. > > 3. I expire the group with gnus-group-expire-articles > > 4. All articles older than 7 days are now removed from the > nnimap server (this is good). > > 5. All articles older than 7 days are also removed from my > local archive. This is not good, and definately not the > result I expected. > > Why did this happen? Is this the intended behaviour when > using the agent? I thought articles were only removed from > the agent when the gnus-agent-expire command was run. The function gnus-request-expire-articles contains a call to gnus-agent-expire so it looks like expiring in a group will expire in the agent. Kevin