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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.