nnmh expiry

nnmh expiry

[James Leifer]

I'm learning about expiry and am having trouble getting it to work the way I'd
like for nnmh under Oort v0.07.  My goal is that:

  No mail article is ever expired except when I manually mark it with E and
  explicitly run the expiry process with B e.

My relevant ~/.gnus settings are as follows:

  ; no auto expiry on exit of a group
  (remove-hook 'gnus-summary-prepare-exit-hook 'gnus-summary-expire-articles)

  ; read articles are not marked as expirable
  (remove-hook 'gnus-mark-article-hook
               'gnus-summary-mark-read-and-unread-as-read)
  (add-hook 'gnus-mark-article-hook 'gnus-summary-mark-unread-as-read)

Furthermore, my nnmh:inbox has the parameters:

  (expiry-wait . immediate) (expiry-target . "nnmh:spam")

Now, when I mark a couple of articles with E and then do B e, the articles all
become marked G but do not move to nnmh:spam.

Help!

Many thanks,

James Leifer
INRIA Rocquencourt

Re: nnmh expiry (second question)

[Kai Großjohann]

James Leifer <James.Leifer@inria.fr> writes:

> Is there a way to *preview* before doing B e which articles will be
> expired and for each one what action will be performed (refiling,
> deletion, etc.)?

B q or B t I think.

kai
-- 
A large number of young women don't trust men with beards.  (BFBS Radio)

Re: nnmh expiry

[Kai Großjohann]

James Leifer <James.Leifer@inria.fr> writes:

> Isaac To <kkto@csis.hku.hk> writes:
>
>> Are you sure that the mail is not moved?  Be reminded that you have
>> to refresh the group view (i.e., "gnus-group-get-new-news") before
>> the articles will appear in the new groups.
>
> Yes, I'm sure that the mail is not being moved because I'm doing M-g
> to refresh the group.  More precisely, I've discovered that,
> apparently at random, only one message of those marked E is moving.
> I suspect this is a bug.

Are you using a recent Oort?  I also have problems with expiry marks
disappearing from time to time: I enter nnimap:INBOX, hit E on some
messages, then I hit M-g to refresh the group and the E marks are gone!

I'm not sure if this is the same problem.

kai
-- 
A large number of young women don't trust men with beards.  (BFBS Radio)

Re: nnmh expiry

[Simon Josefsson]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Are you using a recent Oort?  I also have problems with expiry marks
> disappearing from time to time: I enter nnimap:INBOX, hit E on some
> messages, then I hit M-g to refresh the group and the E marks are gone!

Did you perhaps move message out of the group before the flags are
lost?  I am able to reproduce this bug (it loses read marks for me, I
don't use expiring, but I guess it could be the same bug) but haven't
had time to fix it yet.