Re: bug in recent version of nnml.el

[Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "KY" == Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

  KY> Thank you for inquiring into the bug so closely.

No worries. It wanted to move my gnus emacs to 23 and this was stopping me, so
it was purely self-interest. 


  KY> Mail me if you've already signed or when you sign a paper to FSF.

Hmm. I have done this in the past, but I fear that they might be out of date. 
I don't know how to check this; any ideas? 

  KY> I've reverted those changes. Sorry. I realized it causes another error
  KY> if `nnmail-expiry-target' is the symbol `delete' that is the default. It
  KY> is not only a symbol but also a function symbol. I'll look for another
  KY> solution...


Unfortunate! Hadn't thought of that, of course. 

  KY> Fixed in the Gnus CVS trunk. The change I made in nnml.el is as follows.
  KY> Note that the function set to `nnmail-expiry-target' should be executed
  KY> in a buffer in which there is an article to be examined by the function
  KY> (your function might not care article contents, though).

Good stuff. My function just expires differently for different groups, so it
doesn't matter. In general, you are right though. This is what the
documentation says!

Phil