Re: B DEL is being treated as expiry?

[Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com>]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> 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.

No, we don't.

gnus-summary-delete-article is intended to delete articles, period.
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.  This makes -delete-article operationally correct, deleting
articles unconditionally, as advertised and intended (according to
both help text and novice-user assist query).

If you have other issues, such as nnmaildir not coping, then you have
a problem specific to that, needing a bugfix for nnmaildir.  And if an
-expire-article-right-now function is wanted, that is a separate
question, completely disjoint from whether -delete-article works.  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.