Re: nnimap, expiry-wait, and total-expire

[Kai Grossjohann]

Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org> writes:

> Four1 days ago, I downloaded 5.10 and installed it in my private area.
> I then went and modified my group parameters to turn on total-expire
> again.  Here is an example from one of my group parameter settings.
>
>     ((uidvalidity . "1069690233")
>      (total-expire t)
>      (expiry-wait 93))
>
> Prior to this, I had turned off total-expire since it was clear the
> messages were being expired after only 7 days, and I had subsequently
> accumulated a bit more history.
>
> I just checked today and discovered that I am back to having only 7
> days of history in this file.  I entered the group (C-u RET RET),
> turned off threading, sorted by date, then selected the first article
> to check it's headers.  Sure enough, it was April 30th :-(
>
> So, what else do I need to be looking at?  I've gone through my
> .gnus.el and have no expiry settings in there at all (okay, I have
> gnus-score-expiry-days, but that has nothing to do with this and
> besides it is set to 28).

It's pretty clear you have found a bug.  Please make a bug report,
perhaps also post it in the ding list -- it seems that fewer people
read the Gnus bug reports.

I'm sorry that I can't help you well -- I have too little time.

Kai