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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Nicolas Cavigneaux <cavigneaux@gmail.com>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Expiring nnimap messages automatically
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:29:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftdfj86s.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2v9mbhwqj.fsf@gmail.com> (Nicolas Cavigneaux's message of "Tue,  07 Apr 2020 22:22:28 +0200")

Nicolas Cavigneaux <cavigneaux@gmail.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> The fact that expiry happens only when you call
>> `gnus-summary-expire-articles-now' makes it look like the
>> nnmail-expiry-wait is not getting successfully set to 'immediate. If you
>> run this (use whatever group name you're expecting expiry to happen in):
>>
>> (gnus-group-find-parameter "nnimap+Home:INBOX" 'expiry-wait)
>>
>> What does it return?
>
> It returns nil so I guess it's not good?

Yup, that would cause the problem. And you're sure that the group name
you're testing is a valid one, right? What do you get for just:

(gnus-group-find-parameter <group-name>)

?

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-07 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-07  8:42 Nicolas Cavigneaux
2020-04-07 17:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-07 18:24   ` Nicolas Cavigneaux
2020-04-07 19:49     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-07 20:22       ` Nicolas Cavigneaux
2020-04-07 21:29         ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-04-07 22:32           ` Nicolas Cavigneaux
2020-04-08  3:45             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-08  8:38               ` Nicolas Cavigneaux
2020-04-08 14:55                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-09  8:22                   ` Nicolas Cavigneaux
2020-04-09 16:47                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-09 19:26                       ` Nicolas Cavigneaux
2020-04-09 20:23                         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-09 20:27                           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-09 21:15                             ` Nicolas Cavigneaux
2020-04-09 21:32                               ` Eric Abrahamsen

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