[leafnode-list] texpire deleting more articles than it should
John Wiegley
jwiegley at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 10:43:39 CEST 2011
I use leafnode both to read groups, and to archive groups (and it's awesome
for doing both). I even use local groups to archive mailing list traffic so
that it doesn't fill up my IMAP box.
However, the other day I ran texpire and saw this:
texpire 2.0.0.alpha20110815a.luascript: check mtime only
wg21.c++.news: 8 articles deleted, 170 kept
wg21.c++.lib: 1839 articles deleted, 16232 kept
wg21.c++.ext: 1608 articles deleted, 4314 kept
wg21.c++.date-lib: 0 articles deleted, 202 kept
wg21.c++.core: 412 articles deleted, 9203 kept
wg21.c++.compat: 11 articles deleted, 411 kept
wg21.c++.all: 3 articles deleted, 922 kept
But I have these relevant settings in my config:
expire = 36500
groupexpire = wg21.* -1
As far as I understand, texpire should just be leaving these groups alone,
right?
Luckily I had the groups in question under Git, so I resurrected the articles
easily, but I had to use this invocation to trick texpire into rebuilding my
message.id without deleting those articles again:
texpire -vvv -f -r comp.std.c++
What can I do to fully stop texpire from deleting anything, ever, except for
specific groups that I want to expire?
Thanks,
John
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