Re: nnimap: nnimap-request-move-article does not delete the original message

[Wolfram Fenske <wolfram.fenske@student.uni-magdeburg.de>]

Andreas Vögele <voegelas <at> gmx.net> writes:

> When moving a message from one IMAP folder to another folder the
> message is copied but the original message isn't deleted.

I'm having the same problem, usign Gnus v5.10.7.
 
> `nnimap-request-move-article' from CVS first evaluates `accept-form',
> which is set to `gnus-request-accept-article', to copy the article.
> Then the original messages's \Deleted flag is set.
> 
> But `gnus-request-accept-article' selects the destination IMAP folder.
> Since the source folder isn't selected again, the \Deleted flag is set
> while the wrong IMAP folder is selected.

Thanks to your hints, I was able to come up with a patch that completely fixes
the problem, at least for me. One line of code before the
(imap-message-flags-add ...) in nnimap-request-move-article:

*** /usr/home/wfenske/share/xemacs/site-lisp/gnus/nnimap.el     Fri Feb 17
00:40:24 2006
--- /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/nnimap.el   Fri Feb 17
05:10:57 2006
***************
*** 1492,1497 ****
--- 1492,1498 ----
               (setq result (eval accept-form))
               (kill-buffer buf)
               result)
+            (nnimap-possibly-change-group group server)
             (imap-message-flags-add
              (imap-range-to-message-set (list article))
              "\\Deleted" 'silent nnimap-server-buffer))


Cheers
Wolfram