From: Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:31:40 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: nnir.el (nnir-request-expire-articles): New function allows deleting articles.
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nnir.el (nnir-request-expire-articles): New function allows deleting articles.
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diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 083134106..5f62e480a 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 	* nnir.el (nnir-retrieve-headers): Use rassq when comparing article
 	ids.
 	(nnir-run-gmane): Simplify groupspec formatting.
+	(nnir-request-expire-articles): New function.
 
 2010-12-07  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
 
diff --git a/lisp/nnir.el b/lisp/nnir.el
index 0a67f88f2..726b01564 100644
--- a/lisp/nnir.el
+++ b/lisp/nnir.el
@@ -687,6 +687,25 @@ Add an entry here when adding a new search engine.")
 	  to-newsgroup		; Not respooling
 	  (gnus-group-real-name to-newsgroup)))))
 
+(deffoo nnir-request-expire-articles (articles group &optional server force)
+  (let ((articles-by-group (nnir-categorize
+			    articles nnir-article-group nnir-article-ids))
+	not-deleted)
+    (while (not (null articles-by-group))
+      (let* ((group-articles (pop articles-by-group))
+	     (artgroup (car group-articles))
+	     (articleids (cadr group-articles))
+	     (artlist (sort (mapcar 'cdr articleids) '<)))
+	(unless (gnus-check-backend-function 'request-expire-articles
+					     artgroup)
+	  (error "The group %s does not support article deletion" artgroup))
+	(unless (gnus-check-server (gnus-find-method-for-group artgroup))
+	  (error "Couldn't open server for group %s" artgroup))
+	(push (gnus-request-expire-articles
+	       artlist artgroup force)
+	      not-deleted)))
+    (sort (delq nil not-deleted) '<)))
+
 (deffoo nnir-warp-to-article ()
   (let* ((cur (if (> (gnus-summary-article-number) 0)
 		  (gnus-summary-article-number)