Re: article expiry and "B del"

Re: article expiry and "B del"

[Simon Josefsson]

(CC'ing this to ding since someone had reported the bug discussed in
the last thread..)

Adrian Kubala <adrian@sixfingeredman.net> writes:

> The behaviour of "B del" is poorly documented and confusing. 
> Specifically, the "expiry-target" settings are NOT respected, but the
> nnmail-expiry-target IS. The reason is that the nnmail-expiry-target
> is overridden to use the group's expiry-target only in the function
> `gnus-group-expire-articles-1', and not in
> `gnus-request-expire-articles' where one would think it should be.

This was fixed recently by Nevin Kapur, I think.

> If it were up to me, I'd want one command to force expiration of
> selected articles (respecting expiry-target), and another to actually
> DELETE them, so that I can delete rather than expiring.

Doesn't `gnus-summary-expire-articles-now' expire such articles
correctly?  Maybe B DEL should be reverted to not respect
expiry-target at all then.

Yes, looking at g-s-e-a-n, it seems the last patch was not sufficient;
variables like expiry-wait should also be searched from group
parameters.

I suggest this, making B DEL really delete articles.  Opinions?

--- gnus-sum.el.~6.216.~	Tue Jul  9 15:15:09 2002
+++ gnus-sum.el	Tue Jul  9 15:23:04 2002
@@ -8826,9 +8826,7 @@
     (error "Couldn't open server"))
   ;; Compute the list of articles to delete.
   (let ((articles (sort (copy-sequence (gnus-summary-work-articles n)) '<))
-	(nnmail-expiry-target
-	 (or (gnus-group-find-parameter gnus-newsgroup-name 'expiry-target)
-	     nnmail-expiry-target))
+	(nnmail-expiry-target)
 	not-deleted)
     (if (and gnus-novice-user
 	     (not (gnus-yes-or-no-p

Re: article expiry and "B del"

[Frank Schmitt]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> I suggest this, making B DEL really delete articles.  Opinions?
[...]

Yes, it makes much more sense this way.

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Re: article expiry and "B del"

[Kai Großjohann]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Doesn't `gnus-summary-expire-articles-now' expire such articles
> correctly?  Maybe B DEL should be reverted to not respect
> expiry-target at all then.

I think gnus-summary-expire-articles-now expires all articles that
are marked as expirable, I think.

B DEL only works on one article.

I guess we want to have both commands: (a) put this article through
expiry process, regardless of age, and (b) delete this article from
the group, circumventing the usual expiry process.

kai
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Re: article expiry and "B del"

[Nevin Kapur]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

[...]

> I suggest this, making B DEL really delete articles.  Opinions?

That gets my vote.  Making B DEL delete articles would make its
behavior consistent with its description and the manual.

-Nevin

Re: article expiry and "B del"

[Amos Gouaux]

>>>>> On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:49:21 +0200,
>>>>> Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> (fs) writes:

fs> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>> I suggest this, making B DEL really delete articles.  Opinions?
fs> [...]

fs> Yes, it makes much more sense this way.

Here's a "me too".

-- 
Amos