Re: B DEL is being treated as expiry?

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

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> No, nnmaildir has an equivalent but independent feature.
>
> Which is used even when `force' is non-nil?

I think so, but nnmaildir has a little other brokenness in there that
I need to fix anyway.

> Hm.  Really, nnml and other backends shouldn't use the
> nnmail-expiry-target feature when force is non-nil as well.  This
> would be the proper fix, instead of binding nnmail-expiry-target to
> 'delete in gnus-sum.el.

That sounds good, if that is in fact what "force" is supposed to mean.

> I thought the force parameter indicated immediate deletion.  Isn't the
> docs clear?

It's unclear because it doesn't really mention the difference between
deletion and expiration at all, so the mere juxtaposition of "force"
with "deleted" isn't as suggestive as it might be.  If that is what
it's supposed to mean, then great - let's make the docs more explicit
and fix the backends accordingly.


paul