From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45815 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: B DEL is being treated as expiry? Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:51:00 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027687905 17265 127.0.0.1 (26 Jul 2002 12:51:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:51:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Y4ZM-0004UM-00 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:51:44 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17Y4ZA-00081B-00; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:51:32 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:51:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA27894 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:51:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 10830 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2002 12:51:04 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10825 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2002 12:51:03 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 26 Jul 2002 12:51:03 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6QCp0kd027980 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:51:01 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 020726:ding@gnus.org:7b723c250712e290 In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:40:14 -0400") Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45815 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45815 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: >> My 1-line fix makes it do that, again, for both the non-default >> nnmail-expiry-target case as well as the group parms expiry-target >> case. > > But only by chance, and only for certain backends. The backend > interface must define how this is expressed, and all backends must be > made to conform to that specification. g-s-d-a is not supposed to > know the details of how backends decide what to do with expirable > articles; it's only supposed to know what to pass to > nnchoke-request-expire-articles. I think the problem under discussion only happens for nnmail backends, since the problem only happens when expiry targets which is a nnmail thingie. So making the problem go away for nnmail backends only would solve it. (It also works for nnimap. Nnimap is not a nnmail backend strictly speaking, but it uses most of the same variable anyway, for extra confusion.)