gnus-agent-expire not expiring all nntp groups?

gnus-agent-expire not expiring all nntp groups?

[Jari Aalto+mail.emacs]

    After gnus-agent-expire the results in message buffer tell me:

    Expiring articles in gnu.emacs.gnus
    Expiring articles in comp.emacs.xemacs
    Expiring articles in gnu.emacs.help
    Expiring articles in comp.security.ssh
    Expiring articles in gnu.emacs.sources
    Expiring articles in sfnet.keskustelu.vitsit

    But I have tons of other groups in NNTP backend (that's covered
    by agent) and it doesn't seem to expire those groups 

    Reading gnus-agent-expire is ..uhm.. not trivial. Someone should
    break it into several manageable parts.
    
    I would like to know what Gnus scans, so how do I get a list of
    groups that Gnus thinks are included in expiration process?

    Currently my disk partition is filling fast.

    jari
 

Re: gnus-agent-expire not expiring all nntp groups?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

posting-list@MailAndNews.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:

> But I have tons of other groups in NNTP backend (that's covered
> by agent) and it doesn't seem to expire those groups 

It seems to work for me...

> Reading gnus-agent-expire is ..uhm.. not trivial. Someone should
> break it into several manageable parts.

It's that way because it tries to be efficient.

> I would like to know what Gnus scans, so how do I get a list of
> groups that Gnus thinks are included in expiration process?

It basically goes through the Agent history file and deletes
everything there that's "old", after filtering the definition of
"old" on a per group basis.  If the messages aren't in the history
file, they won't be deleted, I think.

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