Re: Hooks for moving an article and for setting it expirable

[Christopher Culver <crculver@christopherculver.com>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Actually the data argument should be all you need. It will contain
> several of the important email headers from the message, if that's good
> enough, and that it isn't good enough, it also contains the article
> number, which is all you need to retrieve the whole article.

OK, that’s good. I’ve already written quite a bit of a function to do
what I need, assuming that I can get the article number and then
retrieve the raw article with that information.

The problem now is that I have no idea what type gnus-data-header
returns. Emacs' describe-function is not helpful. Is it a string
equivalent to the header portion of the maildir file? Is it a key-values
list, and if so, what the keys?

It’s strange that a lot of these features of gnus, though they are
useful for extending it, are not documented at all. Once I get my own
extension working correctly, I hope that a patch to provide a bare
minimum of documentation on these variables and functions will be
accepted.

Christopher Culver