From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Rajeev Gore <rajeev.gore@anu.edu.au>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-summary-delete-article: The current newsgroup does not support article deletion
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 08:38:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fstvz4hq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0j75xj8.fsf@anu.edu.au> (Rajeev Gore's message of "Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:41:47 +1000")
Rajeev Gore <rajeev.gore@anu.edu.au> writes:
> Sorry for not answering your other question Eric.
>
> B Del gives me the same error ie in the subject.
>
> I just realised that I might be missing the point of gnus.
The problem is that you're working on an NNTP server, which is a "news"
server, meaning that you don't own the articles. Essentially you're
looking a big public archive, and you don't have permissions to change
the archive (apart from sending messages in). You can make additional
local copies of the articles, but that's it -- that's how it's supposed
to work.
> I have moved across from vm and so I am used to having one giant inbox
> file with assorted other files for senders say.
>
> I have therefore tried to emulate this style by storing my inbox in
> RMail format.
>
> So suppose the file is called GnusMail.
>
> I do a G f on the file to fire up a server and then mark messages as E
> when I have read them.
>
> I expected B e to directly delete emails from the GnusMail file itself.
>
> But perhaps I have misunderstood how gnus works.
>
> By the way, there is another annoying thing.
>
> When I say o to try to move an email from GnusMail to another folder,
> gnus insists on making the default contain a nndoc+ as part of the path.
> But I am trying to store my emails in something like ~/MAIL rather than
> ~/Mail and the nndoc+ just gets in the way!
You can look at the value of `gnus-default-article-saver' to change the
default behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-23 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-23 11:31 Rajeev Gore
2021-09-23 11:41 ` Rajeev Gore
2021-09-23 11:45 ` Rajeev Gore
2021-09-23 15:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2021-09-24 4:07 ` Rajeev Gore
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2021-09-15 3:46 Rajeev Gore
2021-09-16 7:48 ` Eric S Fraga
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