Re: nnfolder total-expire like behavior

[Jerry Sievers]

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Jerry Sievers <jerry@jerrysievers.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello.   On Gnus 5.7.
> >
> > I am using an archive folder nnfolder type to store copies of
> > outgoing messages. I had thought that by setting the group parm
> > total-expire . t the messages would be flushed after a week or so.
> >
> > Closing the group and it says "expiring messages" but this doesn't
> > actually get rid of them the way it does for nnmail groups.
> 
> Note that by default expiry is inhibited for the archive method:
> 
>    (info (gnus)Archived Messages):
> 
>    [...]
>    `gnus-message-archive-method' says what virtual server Gnus is to
>    use to store sent messages. The default is:
> 
>      (nnfolder "archive"
>                (nnfolder-directory   "~/Mail/archive")
>                (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active")
>                (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
>                (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t))

Thank you!

Changing that expiry setting to nil does the trick.


> 
> (Disclaimer: I have never used Gnus 5.7.)
> 
> -- 
> Johan Bockgård

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