From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36769 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: expiry: when does expiry-wait start? Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 17:39:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172300 10363 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:51:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:51:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25285 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2001 15:40:19 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Jul 2001 15:40:19 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id RAA09691 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:39:52 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id RAA15749; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:39:52 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id RAA03449; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:39:51 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Didier Verna's message of "03 Jul 2001 15:46:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 18 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36769 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36769 On 03 Jul 2001, Didier Verna wrote: > I have written a backend[1] which does a very peculiar kind of > expiry, so please let it be up to the backend. This doesn't prevent > nnmail from providing convenience functions that would do the usual > stuff, though. Hm. Of course, special cases might require special behavior. I would like to suggest the following: All the standard email backends that come with Gnus should use the same starting point for expiry. The Gnus manual should document what is the standard starting point for expiry, and say that backends should clearly state if they are not following this standard. kai -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory