Re: 0.16 Mail Lossage Alert

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) writes:

>     Lars> So your important mail might be appended to some
>     Lars> mail in your mail.junk group that you have a five second
>     Lars> expiry on.)
> 
> I thought expiration only worked on an integral number of days,
> rounded.  At least that is how it appears to behave.

Yes.  But if you have expiry set to -1, Gnus will expire the article
the first chance it gets, which might be 5 seconds after it receives
the mail.

> While on the topic of expiration, (after experimenting with the
> nnmail-expiry-wait-function), I think I'd like something that I can
> tie into the group parameters to feed that function.  I have a very
> simple-minded one -- nothing more than a big cond.

Yes, expiry is something that one probably should be able to specify
in the group parameters.  What did you have in mind?  `(expiry . 5)'
to override `nnmail-expiry-wait-function' for that group or something
more complex? 

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