Re: storing messages into an mbox file

[lee <lee@yagibdah.de>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Saturday,  9 May 2015 at 16:49, lee wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Sometimes gnus is really awful
>
> I sympathise.  I have had feelings like this in the dim past.  Every
> time I did, I switched to another MUA (pine, mutt, Thunderbird, gmail,
> even Outlook very briefly) only to come back when I hit the limitations
> of the other MUAs.  Only mutt lasted for more than a few months, and
> that was because I could use Emacs easily as the composition editor.

I've used mutt for over 15 years or so and was glad to get away from its
limits.

> gnus is frustrating because it is *so* completely adaptable.  You can

It is frustrating that gnus insists on storing obsolete data, doesn't
let me delete groups I created and refuses to tell me where the mails
are stored.

> tune it to your needs no matter what those needs may be, in my
> experience.  The problem is figuring it all out.  This list is brilliant
> for this!

I'm finding this mailing list not very helpful.  Sometimes I don't get
answers at all, sometimes the result is that nobody knows or that it's a
missing feature or capability or that it's too complicated to be used.
Getting answers that actually help solving the problem at hand are
pretty rare.

Now I can't even find out where the mails are stored, how to delete
obsolete groups and how to make sure that the data gnus uses is clean.
These are very simple and basic questions, with no answers to them.

> But, of course, you should use what works for you!

Maybe I should go back to mutt, but I'd have to convert all my email
back to maildir --- or perhaps use gnus merely as an archive.  In any
case, I'd prefer to find a solution to these questions so that I don't
need to switch.


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