Re: [PATCH] nnmail-fancy-expiry-target

[Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu>]

"Davide G.M.Salvetti" <salve@debian.org> writes:

> [Nevin, I seem to have problems posting to ding.  Will you please check
> if this message also shows there, as it should?  Thanks.]

I am responding to this through ding, so your posting did go through.

>>>>>> "Nevin" == Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:
>
> Nevin> The patch I posted yesterday will work around this by ignoring
> Nevin> such empty buffers and more generally, non-existent headers.
>
> Ok.  Yet there are two problems still.
>
> 1. If the target (nnimap) group where expired articles should go doesn't
>    already exists, the articles will be deleted instead (with no error
>    signaled to the user).

This seems to be an nnimap issue - it does not create groups on the
fly.  For nnfolder non-existent groups are created if they don't
exist.

> 2. If you have a large hole in the article number sequence (say, you
>    have an IMAP group with a three months old ticked article, then a
>    large gap of expired articles and then some new articles), the
>    expiring process takes for ever.  I guess that's because Gnus request
>    a lot of non existing articles from the IMAP server, even if it needs
>    not to.

I've seen this too.  I don't know how to fix this.

-Nevin