Re: Expired articles originated from nnimap group keep expiring forever

[Teemu Likonen]

* 2012-01-27T19:06:44+01:00 * Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
>>     (setq
>>      gnus-parameters

>>        ("^nnml:old$"
>>         (total-expire . t)
>>         (expiry-wait . 365))))
>>
>> When I expire (with E key) an article from an "nnimap" group the
>> article goes to "nnml:old" group (after I exit the "nnimap" group).
>> Fine. But if I then go to "nnml:old" (the article is there with "O"
>> flag.) and exit the group I see this article being expired again. The
>> expiry target is "nnml:old" so the article is deleted and then put
>> back to the same group. It's a kind of expiry loop which happens
>> every time I enter and exit "nnml:old". I'd really like to get rid of
>> this.
>
> If you switch off `expiry-target' in nnml:old, then that should fix
> the problem, I think?

Hmm, there's no expiry-target in my nnml:old. I want them to be deleted
after expiry-wait (385 days). Or did I fail to understand?

Thanks for giving thoughts on this problem anyway. I just noticed that
not all expired messages from an nnimap group end up in this expiry
loop.