Re: Expiry problems...

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

John S Cooper <John.Cooper@citrix.com> writes:

> Why might the demon not expunge expired articles?  My demon function
> just calls gnus-group-expire-all-groups; if I invoke this command
> interactively, then it does seem to expunge articles.
> 
> Now, my demon expiry function is set up to run only when Emacs has been idle
> for 60 minutes, yet I have another demon function which scans new every 5
> minutes.  
> 
>   (gnus-demon-add-handler 'jsc-expire-groups nil 60)
>   (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-news 5 5)
> 
> Could this latter every-5-minute function make Emacs not think it's
> been idle and hence prevent the former demon function from running?
> (.. or is the notion of "idleness" based on lack of keyboard/mouse
> input?)

Another idea: IMAP servers normally time out connections after 30
minutes of inactivity. `gnus-group-expire-all-groups' doesn't re-open
the connection, so expiring wouldn't take place.

Does things start to work if you apply this patch to Gnus?

Index: gnus-group.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/gnus-group.el,v
retrieving revision 5.35
diff -w -u -u -w -r5.35 gnus-group.el
--- gnus-group.el	1999/12/09 15:23:49	5.35
+++ gnus-group.el	1999/12/28 00:44:40
@@ -2631,6 +2631,7 @@
 			(assq 'expire (gnus-info-marks info))))
 	   (expiry-wait (gnus-group-find-parameter group 'expiry-wait)))
       (when expirable
+	(gnus-check-group group)
 	(setcdr
 	 expirable
 	 (gnus-compress-sequence