From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: allan gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: gnus-group-compact-group and expiry Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:20:50 -0400 Message-ID: <87h9bigxyl.fsf_-_@nyu.edu> References: <87lh26fado.fsf@torysa.worldsendless> <87fusd3kba.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469157700 14866 80.91.229.3 (22 Jul 2016 03:21:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 03:21:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 22 05:21:29 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bQR1k-0004Zd-Li for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 05:21:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQR1j-0006H8-NQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:21:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37136) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQR1K-0006Gl-3m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQR1F-0003ab-27 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:21:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.cims.nyu.edu ([128.122.49.96]:38909) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQR1E-0003aT-U8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx2.cims.nyu.edu (8.15.1+Sun/8.15.1) with ESMTP id u6M3KqC4025251; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from E7450-wired.localdomain (ool-18be5de4.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.93.228]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.15.2/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id u6M3Kolv026325 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by E7450-wired.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 644D044597; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:20:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87fusd3kba.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:05:13 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.1 (mx2.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.96]); Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:20:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at mx2 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 128.122.49.96 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 128.122.49.96 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110905 Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 15 2016, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:20 -0400 allan gottlieb wrot= e:=20 > > ag> There is a "global" command that I used once (but forgot its name) > ag> that eliminates the holes in the numbers. > > gnus-group-compact-group is an interactive compiled Lisp function in > =E2=80=98gnus-group.el=E2=80=99. > > (gnus-group-compact-group GROUP) > > Compact the current group. > Compaction means removing gaps between article numbers. Hence, this > operation is only meaningful for back ends using one file per article > (e.g. nnml). > > Note: currently only implemented in nnml. > > HTH > Ted As I mentioned previously gnus-group-compact-group works great for eliminating gaps in article numbers. I realized that, since gnus-group-compact-group copies the files, those previously marked E might not expire before nnmail-expiry-wait days after running gnus-group-compact-group. But that is not happening. In my main mail group I have a large number of messages that arrived in May and were marked E. On 16 June I ran gnus-group-compact-group. Since nnmail-expiry-wait is 31 (see below) they should have disappeared a few days ago but have not. Any help would be appreciated. allan ------------------------------------ nnmail-expiry-wait is a variable defined in `nnmail.el'. Its value is 31 Original value was 7 ------------------------------------------------------- (gnus-summary-goto-article 1000) selects 27-MayE [ 277: J. P. MORGAN SECURITIES] PIMCO FUNDS Important Information ------------------------------- gottlieb@E7450-wired ~ $ ls -l ~/Mail/MAIL/1000 -rw------- 1 gottlieb gottlieb 11091 Jun 16 18:18 /home/gottlieb/Mail/MAIL/= 1000