Re: nnfolder total-expire like behavior

[Johan Bockgård]

Jerry Sievers <jerry@jerrysievers.com> writes:

> Hello.   On Gnus 5.7.
>
> I am using an archive folder nnfolder type to store copies of
> outgoing messages. I had thought that by setting the group parm
> total-expire . t the messages would be flushed after a week or so.
>
> Closing the group and it says "expiring messages" but this doesn't
> actually get rid of them the way it does for nnmail groups.

Note that by default expiry is inhibited for the archive method:

   (info (gnus)Archived Messages):

   [...]
   `gnus-message-archive-method' says what virtual server Gnus is to
   use to store sent messages. The default is:

     (nnfolder "archive"
               (nnfolder-directory   "~/Mail/archive")
               (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active")
               (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
               (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t))

(Disclaimer: I have never used Gnus 5.7.)

-- 
Johan Bockgård