From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36701 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: expiry: when does expiry-wait start? Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:21:15 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172245 10029 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:50:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:50:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 10722 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2001 21:21:43 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 26 Jun 2001 21:21:43 -0000 Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id XAA06269 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:21:15 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id XAA14090; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:21:15 +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 XAA16174; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:21:15 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 16 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36701 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36701 I think that there are a number of candidate dates when counting expiry-wait might start: * date header in message * arrival date on local system * last modification date of message * when user hit `E' If I'm not mistaken, Gnus uses different starting points, depending on the backend. I think it would be useful to think about what should be the starting point to use, and how to implement it using the various backends. What do you think? kai -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory