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From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: expiry-target group parameter does not have any effect
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:21:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2h9tkj1tj.fsf@polytechnique.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twxl12a7.fsf@mailbox.org> (Alexander Baier's message of "Mon,  16 Mar 2015 14:48:32 +0100")


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On 2015-03-16 14:48, Alexander Baier <alexander.baier@mailbox.org> writes:

>> You can look in the *Messages* buffer, there should be logs about
>> expiring. If there isn't, try increasing gnus's verbosity (setting
>> `gnus-verbose' to 10 for very very verbose, for instance).
>
> Even with setting it to 10 I only get:
>
> Retrieving newsgroup: nnmaildir+mailbox:INBOX.daily...
> Fetching headers for nnmaildir+mailbox:INBOX.daily...done
> Sorting threads...done
> Generating summary...done
> No more unseen articles
> No more unread articles
> Exiting summary buffer and applying spam rules
> Expiring articles...done
>
> Is there another way for me to track the path of an email along the
> expiry process? Or does anyone else have an idea about what might be at
> fault here?

It seems that nothing is expired … I guess the next step is to debug the
expiring function. Note that in my case I'm using imap, not maildir, and
expiration functions depend on the backend.

Sorry I cannot be of more help,

Alan

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-16 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-07 10:59 Alexander Baier
2015-03-09 12:39 ` Alan Schmitt
2015-03-16 13:48   ` Alexander Baier
2015-03-16 17:21     ` Alan Schmitt [this message]

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