Re: move article, agent does not expire ?

[Nicolas KOWALSKI <niko@petole.dyndns.org>]

Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com> writes:

>   But when I move an article from a group to another, this expiry does not
>   happen, and so old data is kept into the agent. If I later come back
>   into that "source" group, I see the old article (marked with G), and I
>   can not remove it anymore. So, I currently have to copy the article in
>   the destination group, then delete it, to keep the agent up to date.
>   Even using "gnus-agent-regenerate" does not always clean up the
>   situation.
>
> I am having a problem that I think is the same one.  I use imap for
> mail.  I have a function to make imap sharing with tbird etc. easier:

Glad to see I am not alone.

>   d runs the command gdt-gnus-move-to-trash
>     which is an interactive Lisp function in `/usr/home/gdt/.dot-gdt/.emacs'.
>   It is bound to d.
>   (gdt-gnus-move-to-trash)
>
> (defun gdt-gnus-move-to-trash ()
>   (interactive)
>   (gnus-summary-move-article nil gdt-trash-newsgroup))

I have the same kind of function, this one for spamassassin, rewritten
to handle the current problem:

(defun nk-junk-article ()
  "Submit Spam." 
  (interactive) 
  (when (y-or-n-p "Learn this message as spam ? ")
    (gnus-summary-show-raw-article) 
    (message "Learning article as spam...")
    (gnus-summary-save-in-pipe "sa-learn --spam --no-sync")
    (when (string-match "^nnimap" gnus-newsgroup-name)
      (gnus-summary-copy-article 1 "nnimap:Junk")
      (gnus-summary-delete-article 1)
      (gnus-summary-expand-window)
      )
    )
  )


> and have been noticing G articles in the summary on reentry.  I fix this
> by "rm -rf News/agent".  This behavior started about 2 months ago (by
> very fuzzy memory).

With the above function, the 'G' articles do not reappear in the
summary, but this is a ugly workaround.

-- 
Nicolas