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or maybe...

>>>>> "George" == George J McNinch <McNinch.1@nd.edu> writes:

    George> I posted a related question a few days ago to
    George> I'm using pgnus-0.64. I'm getting incorrect behaviour
    George> expiring/expunging mail. Playing with edebug, it turns out
    George> that in

    George> nnmail-expired-article-p

    George> the crucial test seems to occur here:

    George> (condition-case () (time-less-p days (time-since time))
    George> (error nil))

    George> Where time seems to be a string like:

    George> "From <sender> <date> <time>"

*that* last bit is the problem. Maybe nnfolder-expire-articles
erroneously cuts out the time string; it seems likely that the
"From" information doesn't belong in a time string...

Did I say I am using nnfolder? 

Best,
George