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Subject: Re: B DEL is being treated as expiry?
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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> wrote:
> --- gnus-sum.el.~1~	Sun Jul 21 08:26:48 2002
> +++ gnus-sum.el	Tue Jul 23 12:20:21 2002
> @@ -8837,9 +8837,7 @@
>      (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 'delete)
>  	not-deleted)
>      (if (and gnus-novice-user
>  	     (not (gnus-yes-or-no-p

If this works for you, that's fine, but it's not a generally correct
fix.  We need to sort out the design issues I mentioned.  Also, the
backend interface is not specified in terms of nnmail-expiry-target;
this wouldn't fix nnmaildir, for example.


paul