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Subject: Re: deletion of gnus-agent news articles in win32
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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.