Re: storing messages into an mbox file

[lee <lee@yagibdah.de>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> lee <lee@yagibdah.de> writes:
>
>> how can I move messages into an mbox file (which I will use for
>> spamassassin to learn once there are enough messages in it)?
>
> O m runs the command gnus-summary-save-article-mail, which is an
> interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-sum.el'.
>
> It is bound to C-o, O m, <menu-bar> <Article> <Output> <Save in Unix mail
> format...>.
>
> (gnus-summary-save-article-mail &optional ARG)
>
> Append the current article to a Unix mail box file.
> If N is a positive number, save the N next articles.
> If N is a negative number, save the N previous articles.
> If N is nil and any articles have been marked with the process mark,
> save those articles instead.

Thank you!  It works, though it isn't too great because it's asking for
each and every article where to save it rather than saving all articles
that are marked with the process mark to the same file.  It also leaves
to delete the save articles afterwards.

Isn't there a better way to do this?


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