Re: problem with expire

[allan gottlieb]

I have used gnus for years with success and enjoyment, but lately a
problem with expire has come up that I cannot understand.

My articles are not expiring

  grep expir ~/.emacs.d/lisp/*

yields just

/home/gottlieb/.emacs.d/lisp/custom-file.el:    (((eq mark gnus-expirable-mark)
/home/gottlieb/.emacs.d/lisp/custom-file.el: '(nnmail-expiry-wait 31)
/home/gottlieb/.emacs.d/lisp/custom-file.el~:    (((eq mark gnus-expirable-mark)
/home/gottlieb/.emacs.d/lisp/custom-file.el~: '(nnmail-expiry-wait 31)

So I should not see articles much more than 1 month old

I have looked in the group parameters via gnus-group-customize
for two problematic groups and see nothing that should have turned off
expiry.

The two groups are
emacs (for the mailing list)
MAIL  (for my normal mail)

Any hints?

thanks,
allan