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From: Nicolas Cavigneaux <cavigneaux@gmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Expiring nnimap messages automatically
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 21:26:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21rowzci3.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pncgfvws.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

>>> Simply removing this entry should be enough to let your server parameter
>>> take effect. Delete that and see if it works.
>>
>> I did remove it then "C-c C-c". I also hit "s" in groups buffer to save
>> my changes in .newsrc.eld.
>>
>> I checked that the file was up-to-date and it is.
>>
>> I started a new instance of Emacs / Gnus. The 'expiry-wait is really
>> gone when I check the group using "G p". But deleting / moving of
>> expired email is also gone with it… My expired messages now stay in the
>> group.
>>
>> I could manually set 'expiry-wait on each group and it would do the job
>> but I'm pretty sure it's not the right way .
>
> *sigh*. What's supposed to happen is that this server's value for
> `nnmail-expiry-wait' is dynamically bound and consulted while the server
> is doing its business. If 'immediate is the value you want for
> everything, you can just setq that variable in your top-level gnus
> config. Otherwise you can do something like:

What variable are you talking about? nnmail-expiry-wait seems OK to me:

nnmail-expiry-wait is a variable defined in ‘nnmail.el’.
Its value is 'immediate
Original value was 7


> (setq gnus-parameters '(("^nnimap:.*" (expiry-wait 'immediate))))
>
> To set it just for imap groups.

It would be OK. I don't mind being explicit even if it's intended to
work without a workaround. So I tried:

gnus-parameters is a variable defined in ‘gnus.el’.
Its value is (("^nnimap:.*" (expiry-wait 'immediate)))
Original value was nil

But it doesn't expire anything in my imap groups.

> Otherwise I could try to fix the bug :)

That would be really kind of you but I don't want to bother you with
this. You already spent a lot of time helping me.

Moreover I'm maybe doing something wrong. It seems that I'm the only one
facing this "bug".

As I said I can set 'expiry-wait manually for each group. It's clearly
not the most effective way of achieving my goal but it would work.

By reading your advice I feel like I'm doing something wrong, it should work.
-- 
Nicolas Cavigneaux
http://www.bounga.org
http://www.cavigneaux.net


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-09 19:27 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
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 [this message]
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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