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Re: ancient articles
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Adam Sjøgren |
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Re: ancient articles |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:53:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux) |
On 04 Apr 2005 11:04:55 +0100, Phillip wrote:
Adam> If so, the answer is right there in the info-node that Reiner
Adam> Steib quoted: an article is ancient if it has been marked read
Adam> in a previous session (not the current session). Simple as that.
Adam> Sorry if I misunderstood you and the above was obvious.
> Then I don't understand what is happening.
> I use auto-expiry on my main mail box, moving stuff to an old mail
> box after 30 days.
> If I look at my mail box now, I have a pile of messages marked as
> "O", then a set of messages marked as "!" (ticked, which I have
> marked so that they stay around). And then messages marked as "E" or
> "EA".
> If I look at the dates, those marked E (expired) are all less than
> 30 days old. The ones marked as "O" can be much older. They are
> certainly not all of my old mail messages, most of which have
> expired correctly.
> None of which seems to relate to messages read in previous sessions
> (presumably a session being an gnus/emacs restart).
I don't think the 'O' interacts with expiry in any way, but I'm
certainly not an expiry-expert in any way (I don't use it at home, I
use it casually at work, and I've never used auto-expire).
When investigating why some articles older than 30 days aren't expired
I would ignore the 'O', if I were you, I think.
Hopefully someone with better understanding of this can jump in and
enlighten things.
Best regards,
Adam
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"Vilken sanning, Måns, är sann?" Adam Sjøgren
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