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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: Expiry and nnimap: ghost articles
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:50:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilud746aq45.fsf@barbar.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3itdz6qqe.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Mon, 01 Oct 2001 16:37:39 -0400")

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
>> Ah, yes -- if you move an article from a nnimap group to a nnfolder
>> group (which was the case in this thread), moving doesn't happen
>> within one backend, so Gnus does retrieve+delete.
> 
> Why doesn't Gnus just put nnfolder-request-accept article into the
> form it passes to nnimap-request-move-article?  The interface seems
> specifically designed to accomodate moving between backends; hasn't it
> been mentioned before that the *lack* of any backend interface
> function to shuffle articles on a single server makes some
> optimizations harder?

You are right, I was hallucinating -- it was a bug in nnimap.  Moving
articles from nnimap groups shouldn't place a copy in the
expiry-target now.  Thanks for getting this straight.




  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-02 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-26  0:17 Nevin Kapur
2001-09-26  7:31 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-09-26 16:56   ` Nevin Kapur
2001-09-26 17:56     ` Simon Josefsson
2001-09-26 21:10       ` Nevin Kapur
2001-09-27  8:43         ` Simon Josefsson
2001-09-27 14:41           ` Nevin Kapur
2001-09-27 15:54           ` Paul Jarc
2001-09-27 21:36             ` Simon Josefsson
2001-09-28 12:47               ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-28 14:32               ` Nevin Kapur
2001-10-01 20:37               ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-02 17:50                 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2001-10-02 17:46               ` Paul Jarc

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