GNUS-AGENT-EXPIRE Does Nothing

[Volkan YAZICI]

Hi,

I've been struggling with an article expiration problem since
weeks. Neither

- emacs-help mailing list,
- gnu.emacs.gnus news group,
- address@hidden mailing list

helped me to solve the problem. I'll be appreciated if anybody can help
me with the problem described in the attached post.


Regads.

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> Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:40:46 +0300
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> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Volkan YAZICI <address@hidden> writes:
> > Despite below configurations, calling GNUS-AGENT-EXPIRE on an article
> > from "18 Oct 2007" returns "Expiry recovered 0 NOV entries, deleted 0
> > files, and freed 0.000000 B." and obviously no expiration occurs. Any
> > ideas what I might be missing?
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> >   (defun custom-nnmail-expiry-wait (group)
> >     (cond ((string-match "mail" (gnus-group-topic group)) 90)
> >         (t 30)))
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> >   (setq
> >    gnus-agent-expire-all nil
> >    gnus-agent-expire-days 7
> >    gnus-agent-expire-unagentized-dirs t
> >    nnmail-expiry-wait 7
> >    message-expires 7
> >    nnmail-expiry-wait-function 'custom-nnmail-expiry-wait
> >    gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups ".*")
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> I tracked down the problem and find out that
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>   (file-exists-p (gnus-agent-lib-file "active"))
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> in GNUS-AGENT-EXPIRE-GROUP returns NIL. Where
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>   (gnus-agent-lib-file "active")
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> returns "/home/vy/gnus/news/agent/nnml/mailspool/agent.lib/active". I
> suspect the problem is caused by my non-default gnus directory
> configuration:
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>   (setq gnus-directory "~/gnus/news"
>         nnml-directory "~/gnus/mail"
>         mail-source-directory "~/gnus/mail-source"
>         message-directory "~/gnus/mail")
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> Moreover,
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>   $ find ~/gnus -name "active"
>   /home/vy/gnus/mail/active
>   /home/vy/gnus/news/cache/active
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> Does that ring bells for someone? Any ideas how can I fix the problem?
> Why there doesn't exist such an "active" file?
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> > BTW, among GNUS-AGENT-EXPIRE-DAYS, NNMAIL-EXPIRY-WAIT, MESSAGE-EXPIRES
> > and NNMAIL-EXPIRY-WAIT-FUNCTION, how gnus decides which one to use?
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> Um... I still need help for those as well.
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> Regards.
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