gnus: Agent Expiry
6.9.6 Agent Expiry
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The Agent back end, ‘nnagent’, doesn’t handle expiry. Well, at least it
doesn’t handle it like other back ends. Instead, there are special
‘gnus-agent-expire’ and ‘gnus-agent-expire-group’ commands that will
expire all read articles that are older than ‘gnus-agent-expire-days’
days. They can be run whenever you feel that you’re running out of
space. Neither are particularly fast or efficient, and it’s not a
particularly good idea to interrupt them (with ‘C-g’ or anything else)
once you’ve started one of them.
Note that other functions might run ‘gnus-agent-expire’ for you to
keep the agent synchronized with the group.
The agent parameter ‘agent-enable-expiration’ may be used to prevent
expiration in selected groups.
If ‘gnus-agent-expire-all’ is non-‘nil’, the agent expiration
commands will expire all articles—unread, read, ticked and dormant. If
‘nil’ (which is the default), only read articles are eligible for
expiry, and unread, ticked and dormant articles will be kept
indefinitely.
If you find that some articles eligible for expiry are never expired,
perhaps some Gnus Agent files are corrupted. There’s are special
commands, ‘gnus-agent-regenerate’ and ‘gnus-agent-regenerate-group’, to
fix possible problems.
Info Catalog
gnus: Agent as Cache
gnus: Gnus Unplugged
gnus: Agent Regeneration