From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85945 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaus Rath Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: storing messages into an mbox file Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 19:25:13 -0700 Message-ID: <87d21yzkom.fsf@vostro.rath.org> References: <87r3r45b4c.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <87y4lc10lt.fsf@igel.home> <878uda689b.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431915934 15406 80.91.229.3 (18 May 2015 02:25:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 02:25:34 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34180@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 18 04:25:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YuAk6-0004tQ-D1 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 04:25:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YuAk3-0002v1-SA; Sun, 17 May 2015 21:25:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YuAk2-0002uj-KQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 17 May 2015 21:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YuAk1-0003cR-2a for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 17 May 2015 21:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from ebox.rath.org ([23.92.25.96]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YuAjz-0004nD-CL for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 04:25:15 +0200 Original-Received: from vostro ([192.168.12.4] helo=vostro.rath.org) by ebox.rath.org with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YuAjx-0007F6-JT for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 02:25:13 +0000 Original-Received: by vostro.rath.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3BB89E71CC2; Sun, 17 May 2015 19:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <878uda689b.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> (lee@yagibdah.de's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2015 21:32:00 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85945 Archived-At: On Apr 29 2015, lee wrote: >>> 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,
> 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? Certainly, just set gnus-prompt-before-saving to something other than 'always. Best, -Nikolaus --=20 GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F =C2=BBTime flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.=C2= =AB