From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17857 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: multi-email gnus setup questions Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 12:08:13 +0800 Message-ID: <87vb7kmt3m.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87mvt3ny9x.fsf@jnanam.net> <87fuyvmgw1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <8760zpxvr8.fsf@kloecker.org> <87d1twonfv.fsf@jnanam.net> <877fk4xsp3.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87bn9fbkye.fsf@jnanam.net> <8737uruvj8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87r3i8h75d.fsf@jnanam.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451189320 6241 80.91.229.3 (27 Dec 2015 04:08:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 04:08:40 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 05:08:31 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aD2dC-0000xe-Ae for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 05:08:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40672 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD2dB-0005Hd-Em for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:08:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45627) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD2d8-0005H5-PM for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:08:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD2d5-0000ym-IK for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:08:26 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD2d5-0000yi-BC for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:08:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aD2d2-0000iz-Bh for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 05:08:20 +0100 Original-Received: from 111.197.157.87 ([111.197.157.87]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 05:08:20 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 111.197.157.87 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 05:08:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 111.197.157.87 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nJEw/l0CBNJedlydUbXhJ9zoRQM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17857 Archived-At: Benjamin Slade writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >>> Any ideas where something could be going wrong? >> >> I think it's probably edebug time. Try instrumenting the >> my-expire-gmail-imap-message function, and maybe, for good measure, >> gnus-group-expire-articles-1 as well. Expire some articles, and step >> through the functions, and just see what's going on. My guess is it will >> become clear pretty quickly what's going wrong. I hope! > > After many hours of wrestling with this, it turns out to have nothing to > do with Gnus. It's a quirk about Gmail's mail arrangement, and the way > that mbsync works. It seems I had a similar problem a few years ago > when I used mbsync for mu4e for a little while (though I have no memory > of this), and so my Google searches ultimately led me back to my own old > question (and, fortunately, solution): > http://sourceforge.net/p/isync/mailman/message/31638141/ :--- > > The trick is to make a separate mbsync channel and sync the > Trash/Bin first. > > Though, ultimately (actually in the course of trying to find a solution) > I ended up switching to using fancy-expire (keyed to email addresses) > instead, as the other method doesn't work for virtual groups. Oof. That doesn't sound like much fun, but I'm glad you got it sorted. I have to say, imap got a lot easier to work with when I switched away from Gmail...