From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4835 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: ancient articles Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:53:20 +0200 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <874qemjmbj.fsf@koldfront.dk> References: <8764z7h6cj.fsf@koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670714 25076 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:25:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:25:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:22 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!sunsite.dk!news.szn.dk!news.koldfront.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: topper.koldfront.dk Original-X-Trace: virgil.koldfront.dk 1112648000 16720 192.168.1.190 (4 Apr 2005 20:53:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@koldfront.dk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 20:53:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: &DfBw60^ZxI8hd?J%t&_8wW?SLF%BBx<2XQ+sXYpX!?{=0C?9D{Nc`;Eq<0d=-L User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RxtL990/jB61fPJ+l7el9Z1Fx70= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4976 Original-Lines: 44 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4976 Tue Jan 17 17:34:22 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4835 Archived-At: On 04 Apr 2005 11:04:55 +0100, Phillip wrote: Adam> If so, the answer is right there in the info-node that Reiner Adam> Steib quoted: an article is ancient if it has been marked read Adam> in a previous session (not the current session). Simple as that. Adam> Sorry if I misunderstood you and the above was obvious. > Then I don't understand what is happening. > I use auto-expiry on my main mail box, moving stuff to an old mail > box after 30 days. > If I look at my mail box now, I have a pile of messages marked as > "O", then a set of messages marked as "!" (ticked, which I have > marked so that they stay around). And then messages marked as "E" or > "EA". > If I look at the dates, those marked E (expired) are all less than > 30 days old. The ones marked as "O" can be much older. They are > certainly not all of my old mail messages, most of which have > expired correctly. > None of which seems to relate to messages read in previous sessions > (presumably a session being an gnus/emacs restart). I don't think the 'O' interacts with expiry in any way, but I'm certainly not an expiry-expert in any way (I don't use it at home, I use it casually at work, and I've never used auto-expire). When investigating why some articles older than 30 days aren't expired I would ignore the 'O', if I were you, I think. Hopefully someone with better understanding of this can jump in and enlighten things. Best regards, Adam -- "Vilken sanning, Måns, är sann?" Adam Sjøgren asjo@koldfront.dk