Re: Caching IMAP articles

[Simon Josefsson]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 12 2004, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
> [...]
>>> Agent doesn't expire any article in your configuration so what if
>>> you mark an article as expirable ?
>>
>> I don't expire articles.  I think that marking an article expirable
>> would only do something if I have some expiring mechanism
>> (total-expire, auto-expire, etc) enabled, but I don't.
>
> Leaving the agent out of the game (I don't use it), total-expire or
> auto-expire aren't necessary to get rid of expire articles.  Articles
> which have been marked as expirable, will be deleted after
> `expiry-wait' days (I don't remember what the default value is) when
> you (enter and) exit the group.

Ah, you are right.  It was a long time since I used expiring.