Re: B DEL is being treated as expiry?

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

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> wrote:
> gnus-summary-delete-article is intended to delete articles, period.

Right.

> My 1-line fix makes it do that, again, for both the non-default
> nnmail-expiry-target case as well as the group parms expiry-target
> case.

But only by chance, and only for certain backends.  The backend
interface must define how this is expressed, and all backends must be
made to conform to that specification.  g-s-d-a is not supposed to
know the details of how backends decide what to do with expirable
articles; it's only supposed to know what to pass to
nnchoke-request-expire-articles.

> If you have other issues, such as nnmaildir not coping, then you have
> a problem specific to that, needing a bugfix for nnmaildir.

The problem isn't specific to nnmaildir; your fix is specific to
nnmail-derived backends.  I don't know, but I'd guess that it also
fails for nnimap.

> And if an -expire-article-right-now function is wanted, that is a
> separate question, completely disjoint from whether -delete-article
> works.

It isn't completely disjoint, because it's likely that we'll want to
use the same backend function for both purposes.  (Otherwise we'll be
duplicating a significant amount of code.)  So the interface for that
function must define how the two cases are distinguished.

> You may have a design issue related to how to do that, but my bugfix
> takes care of the outright flaw of -delete-article so that it works
> properly.

No, it only makes the symptom disappear for cases like yours.


paul