From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNUS-AGENT-EXPIRE Does Nothing
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:10:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdyxmxq3.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fefe3cb8-a795-468e-9071-76323d5536d2@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
On Thu, Jul 17 2008, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> [I know this question has been raised many times before, but I
> couldn't find an appropriate thread fits to my situation. If you knew
> one, don't hesistate to bash me.]
>
> Despite below configurations, calling GNUS-AGENT-EXPIRE on an article
> from "18 Oct 2007" returns "Expiry recovered 0 NOV entries, deleted 0
> files, and freed 0.000000 B." and obviously no expiration occurs. Any
> ideas what I might be missing?
>
> (defun custom-nnmail-expiry-wait (group)
> (cond ((string-match "mail" (gnus-group-topic group)) 90)
> (t 30)))
>
> (setq
> gnus-agent-expire-all nil
> gnus-agent-expire-days 7
> gnus-agent-expire-unagentized-dirs t
Sorry, I don't use the agent and don't know enough about it to help.
> nnmail-expiry-wait 7
> message-expires 7
> nnmail-expiry-wait-function 'custom-nnmail-expiry-wait
> gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups ".*")
> BTW, among gnus-agent-expire-days,
See (info "(gnus)Agent Expiry").
> nnmail-expiry-wait,
See (info "(gnus)Expiring Mail").
> message-expires
,----[ (info "(message)News Headers") ]
| `Expires'
| This extremely optional header will be inserted according to the
| `message-expires' variable. It is highly deprecated and
| shouldn't be used unless you know what you're doing.
`----
> and nnmail-expiry-wait-function,
See (info "(gnus)Expiring Mail").
> how gnus decides which one to use?
Only nnmail-expiry-wait-function and nnmail-expiry-wait are closely
related. The others serve a completely different purpose.
Bye, Reiner.
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2008-07-17 7:37 Volkan YAZICI
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2003-04-18 16:15 ` gnus-agent-expire does nothing Torsten Bronger
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