Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > When Emacs crashes 
> 
> Similar problem.  I use nnmail-expiry-target to send some things to
> nnfolder groups for archival.  Those files are appended to in memory
> and saved when gnus quits.  They are not saved when I hit "s" in
> *Group*.  (Problem 1.)
> 
> If Emacs should crash before I quit Gnus, Gnus uses the last-saved
> version of the file, and loses anything which had been modified in the
> autosave.  
> 
> Given Gnus' ability to handle other unsaved files (like newsrc) it
> would be nice if it would handle these, but it would also be nice if
> it would save them when I hit s.

You can try the attached patch (not in the CVS repository).  The
drawback is that Gnus has to save the entire nnfolder file for each
expired article.

ShengHuo