* Re: deletion of gnus-agent news articles in win32
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@ 2003-03-20 19:44 ` Kevin Greiner
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From: Kevin Greiner @ 2003-03-20 19:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
steptayl@myrealbox.com (Steve) writes:
> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> wrote in message news:<ufzpinibc.fsf@xpediantsolutions.com>...
>> steptayl@myrealbox.com (Steve) writes:
>>
>> > What causes gnus-agent to expire and delete news articles on my hard
>> > disk? So far, in Gnu Emacs 21.1.1, Windows 98SE, only mail articles
>> > are expired and deleted
>> >
>> > In .gnus.el I have
>> >
>> > (setq gnus-agent-expire-all t) ;; expire all (read, unread, ticked)
>> > (setq gnus-agent-expire-days 7) ;; expire after n days
>> > ;; (gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups - auto-expire read articles in
>> > groups
>> > ;; matching Regexp
>> > (setq gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups
>> > "mail.\\.*\\|alt.\\.*\\|comp.\\.*\\|ncf.\\.*\\|gnu.\\.*\\|ott.rides")
>> > (setq gnus-inhibit-user-auto-expire nil) ;; non-nil will not mark
>> > ;; article as expirable
>> > (setq gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups "mail.d-curi") ;; mail groups,
>> > ;; all articles checked for expiry
>> > (remove-hook 'gnus-mark-article-hook ;; auto-expirable groups:
>> > ;; dont have articles marked as read marked as expirable
>> > ;; automatically
>> >
>> > In (News) Group Parameters I have
>> > ((display . all)
>> > (visible . t)
>> > (auto-expire . t)
>> > (total-expire . t)
>> > (expiry-wait 7))
>> >
>> > Deletion of expired articles is not happening.
>> > What causes deletion?
>>
>> Agent expiration, dispite its nisleading name, has nothing to do with
>> imap expiration. That's why your group parameters don't appear to be
>> having any effect. The command you want to use is
>>
>> M-x gnus-agent-expire
>>
>> Kevin
>
> Thanks, but none of this is imap. It's all on hard drive. Newsgroup
> ott.rides has a kill file that marks unwanted articles 'E' already.
> They don't go away. Will gnus-agent-expire delete them?
There is only one way to find out. Execute gnus-agent-expire.
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