Re: Expired articles originated from nnimap group keep expiring forever

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> I have an annoying problem with forever-expiring "nnimap" articles. I
> use this kind of group settings (simplified):
>
>     (setq
>      gnus-parameters
>      `(("^nnimap\\>.*"
>         (spam-contents gnus-group-spam-classification-ham)
>         (spam-process ((spam spam-use-bogofilter)
>                        (ham spam-use-bogofilter)))
>         (spam-process-destination . "nnml:spam")
>         (expiry-wait . immediate)
>         (expiry-target . "nnml:old")
>         (display . all)
>         (gnus-large-newsgroup nil))
>
>        ("^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?

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