Re: [PATCH] Make gnus-summary-delete-article respect group parameters

[Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:

[...]

>> I would also like to argue that B DEL performing expiry instead of
>> deletion is inconsistent with its name and its description in the
>> manual.
>
> Yes, which is why B DEL doesn't respect expiry-target, no?

But it respects nnmail-expiry-target.  So if you have it set to
something other than 'delete, then any article that is B DELed will be
put through the expiry process.  In my case that means junk mail that
makes it to my INBOX lands up in my archive groups.

> If you want expiry-target to be adheared, you should expire the
> article, not delete it.

With the current behavior it is not possible to have
nnmail-expiry-target set to some archival sort of function *and* have
B DEL immediately expunge the article, bypassing nnmail-expiry-target.

I offered the patch to make the current behavior consistent.  If
g-s-d-a looks at nnmail-expiry-target then it should also look at the
expiry-target group parameter.

For me the best outcome would be if B DEL outright deleted the
article.  But this may break somebody else's setup who has relied on B
DEL to expire articles.  For them the patch is useful.

> Perhaps this isn't a intuitive default behaviour, I'm not sure since I
> don't use expiry-target.

I don't know how to change the default behavior in a nice backward
compatible way.  Once could always introduce another variable...

-Nevin