From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11844 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Thompson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: nnfolder question Date: 05 Aug 1997 13:42:19 -0400 Message-ID: <1lafiw7chw.fsf@zagato.visix.com> Reply-To: gregt@visix.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151488 348 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:04:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA12122 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 11:48:30 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA15899 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 13:44:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:43:00 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 31869 invoked by uid 504); 5 Aug 1997 17:42:55 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 31866 invoked from network); 5 Aug 1997 17:42:52 -0000 Original-Received: from zagato.visix.com (149.62.101.48) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 5 Aug 1997 17:42:52 -0000 Original-Received: (from gregt@localhost) by zagato.visix.com (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) id NAA13370; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 13:42:20 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 38 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.63/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11844 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11844 i've decided to bring all of my old vm mail files which i used to archive messages into gnus as nnfolder groups so i can more easily browse them, add messages to 'em, etc. so i created a new nnfolder server with the various variables pointing to the proper places and such: (nnfolder "saved" (nnfolder-directory "/over/there") (nnfolder-active-file "/over/there/active") (nnfolder-newsgroups-file "/over/there/newsgroups") (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)) so then i copied over one of the mail files into the directory, entered the server buffer, opened up the server via RET in the server buffer, and did an nnfolder-generate-active-file. unfortunately, it failed (this is gnus 5.4.63). the active file looked like this: alfa 0 1 y nil 36 0 y where it should have looked like this: alfa 36 1 y so i fixed that by hand, and was able to subscribe to the group, enter it, etc. groovy. now some questions: can i have groups in subdirectories to make a heirarchy of saved mail files? generate-active-file doesn't seem to search down into 'em. how to i make gnus add the group to the active file and add the headers to the files if generate-active-file won't do it for me? uh, i thought i had another question, but i have no idea what it would have been... -- -greg