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"Michael J. Barillier" <blackwolf@pcisys.net> writes:

> `B e' in the summary buffer doesn't delete read mail, `C-c C-x' in the
> group buffer doesn't work, marking all the messages as expirable and
> changing `total-expire' to `auto-expire' doesn't work -- seems that
> nothing short of wiping the disk will delete the damned messages.
> What am I doing wrong?

Look at the modification times of the files in your nnml group. This
backend use them during the expiration process. It does not use the
date included in articles.

My problem was (in fact this is not a problem) that the nnml groups
are fairly recent (built a few days ago from nnfolder archives).

Nicolas.