Re: Sudden apparent expiry in 5.10.6

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Jan 20 2005, Robert Cumming wrote:

> I've been happily running Gnus 5.10.6 for a month now, but I just
> noticed that some of my less-used mail groups are now practically
> empty.  Like, updating a group in the Groups buffer removes the * at
> the left, because the !ed articles in the group just aren't there any
> more.  Scary!

The manual says:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Expiring Mail") ]
| In general, a mail article will be
| deleted from your system if, 1) it is marked as expirable, AND 2) it is
| more than one week old.  If you do not mark an article as expirable, it
| will remain on your system until hell freezes over.  This bears
| repeating one more time, with some spurious capitalizations: IF you do
| NOT mark articles as EXPIRABLE, Gnus will NEVER delete those ARTICLES.
`----

> Any idea what might have happened?  

Most probably you turned on "auto-expire" or "total-expire"
unintendedly.

Bye, Reiner.
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