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From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
Subject: Re: Archiving Outgoing Messages
Date: 12 Feb 2001 20:13:16 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d7cojmc3.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafwvawtgvi.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "12 Feb 2001 10:01:05 +0100")

On 12 Feb 2001, Kai Großjohann wrote:
> On 11 Feb 2001, Samuel Padgett wrote:
> 
>> Also, the manual hints that nnfolder is the preferable backend for
>> message archive groups.  Why is this?  Is there something special
>> about sent messages that makes nnfolder better than, say, nnml?
> 
> Actually, I have no idea why gnus-message-archive-method defaults to
> nnfolder.  I don't understand why people would want to archive their
> outgoing messages in a different server than the normal messages.
> 
> Can anyone explain?

Personally, I use nnfolder for two reasons:

1. It does not pollute the namespace of my mail folders with archive
   mailboxes.

2. nnfolder uses *far* less inodes than nnmail. Since I have a lot of
   mail but don't access my archives often, I prefer the slower but less
   disk-intensive nnfolder for the mail.

        Daniel

-- 
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but
in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
        -- H. L. Mencken



  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-12  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-11 23:01 Samuel Padgett
2001-02-11 23:41 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-02-12  9:01 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-02-12  9:13   ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
2001-10-15 10:25 Archiving outgoing messages Nicolas KOWALSKI
2001-10-15 10:51 ` Kai Großjohann

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