Re: Expiry and nnimap: ghost articles

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

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.

Thinking more on this - even if Gnus does retrieve+delete, it could
(and ought to) use nnchoke-request-move-article to do it.  Using
nnchoke-request-article is wrong, since it doesn't undo any changes
made by the backend, and using nnchoke-request-expire-articles is
wrong as has already been mentioned.

To retrieve with n-r-m-a, just pass nil as the accept-form; the
article will then be in the given buffer.  To delete with n-r-m-a,
pass t as the accept-form.  (Passing the destination backend's
-request-accept article would be even better, but might be a harder
change to make.)


paul