Mails are not expired

Mails are not expired

[Nikolaus Rath]

Hello,

I have a nnimap group with group parameters

((uidvalidity . "1148224209")
 (to-address . "work@pulse-copy.com")
 (subscribed . t)
 (broken-reply-to . t)
 (total-expire . t)
 (expiry-wait . 14)
 (expiry-target . delete))

yet the group contains (read) articles from before March 21. Why
aren't they deleted?

Thanks in advance,

  --Nikolaus
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Re: Mails are not expired (help!)

[David Abrahams]

on Sun Apr 08 2007, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus-AT-rath.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a nnimap group with group parameters
>
> ((uidvalidity . "1148224209")
>  (to-address . "work@pulse-copy.com")
>  (subscribed . t)
>  (broken-reply-to . t)
>  (total-expire . t)
>  (expiry-wait . 14)
>  (expiry-target . delete))
>
> yet the group contains (read) articles from before March 21. Why
> aren't they deleted?
>
> Thanks in advance,

I'm having exactly the same problem.  Please, somebody help!

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Re: Mails are not expired

[Kai Grossjohann]

Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:

> yet the group contains (read) articles from before March 21. Why
> aren't they deleted?

Is nnimap-expunge-on-close set to always or ask?  Then the messages
should be deleted when you exit the group with q (but not when you
exit with Q).

Kai

Re: Mails are not expired

[David Abrahams]

on Thu Apr 26 2007, Kai Grossjohann <kai-AT-emptydomain.de> wrote:

> Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:
>
>> yet the group contains (read) articles from before March 21. Why
>> aren't they deleted?
>
> Is nnimap-expunge-on-close set to always or ask?  

It's set to "always."

> Then the messages should be deleted when you exit the group with q
> (but not when you exit with Q).

:(

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Re: Mails are not expired

[Sebastian Kaps]

// Nikolaus Rath writes:

> yet the group contains (read) articles from before March 21. Why
> aren't they deleted?

Just a shot in the dark: try adding "(nnmail-expiry-wait . 14)".

-- 
Ciao, Sebastian

Re: Mails are not expired

[Nikolaus Rath]

Sebastian Kaps <seb@toyland.sauerland.de> writes:
> // Nikolaus Rath writes:
>
>> yet the group contains (read) articles from before March 21. Why
>> aren't they deleted?
>
> Just a shot in the dark: try adding "(nnmail-expiry-wait . 14)".

Just tried it, does not make a difference.


  --Nikolaus
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Re: Mails are not expired

[Sebastian Kaps]

// Nikolaus Rath writes:

> Just tried it, does not make a difference.

Do you have "nnimap" in gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups?
If not try this:
(setq gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups "^nnimap:.*")

-- 
Ciao, Sebastian

Re: Mails are not expired

[Nikolaus Rath]

Sebastian Kaps <seb@toyland.sauerland.de> writes:
> // Nikolaus Rath writes:
>
>> Just tried it, does not make a difference.
>
> Do you have "nnimap" in gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups?
> If not try this:
> (setq gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups "^nnimap:.*")

Documentation:
*Groups in which to automatically mark read articles as expirable.
If non-nil, this should be a regexp that should match all groups in
which to perform auto-expiry.  This only makes sense for mail groups.

Does not make sense, since I'm doing total expiry and not auto expiry.


Best,

  --Nikolaus
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Re: Mails are not expired

[Sebastian Kaps]

// Nikolaus Rath writes:

> Documentation:
[...]
> Does not make sense, since I'm doing total expiry and not auto expiry.

You're right. I was just grepping through my Gnus configuration files
for anything related to mail expiration. For me it works with these
group parameters:

((auto-expire . t)
 (nnmail-expiry-wait . 365)
 (expiry-wait . 365)
 (total-expire . t))

-- 
Ciao, Sebastian