9.3.2 Confirming

If you are to use remove, try trash at first and see messages move to wl-trash-folder as expected, then replace it with remove. It would be dangerous to use remove from the beginning.

If you are to use wl-expire-archive-number1 and the like, try to make a folder of the archiver type (zip or lha) and see if you can append messages to it. Even if settings in wl-expire-alist and elmo-archive are correct, messages would not be saved anywhere and disappeared in case the archiver program fails.

After you make sure you can archive to the folder correctly, you can invoke expiration and utilize the log.

If you set wl-expire-use-log to t, `~/.elmo/expired-log' should contain the log, for example:

delete  +ml/wl  (593 594 595 596 597 598 599)
move    +ml/wl -> $ml/wl-00600;tgz;wl  (600 601 602)

The first column indicates the operation, i.e. `delete', `copy', or `move'. The next is the name of the folder that expired. In the case of `copy' and `move', the destination folder is recorded after `->'. The last is the list of message numbers that are actually deleted or moved (in the case of `copy' and `move', the number is the one in the source folder, rather than the destination folder).