From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85913 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: storing messages into an mbox file Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 01:14:44 +0200 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87lhh0j7yz.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> References: <87r3r45b4c.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <87y4lc10lt.fsf@igel.home> <878uda689b.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <87fv7iofuz.fsf@igel.home> <87zj5q4jxn.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <877fsu78k8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wq0olwl9.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <87sibcvps0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431040510 25672 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2015 23:15:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 23:15:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34149@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 08 01:14:59 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 1YqV0N-0006uw-KE for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 01:14:59 +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 1YqV0K-0008WI-BR; Thu, 07 May 2015 18:14:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YqV0H-0008VM-9o for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 07 May 2015 18:14:53 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YqV0G-0001rz-1I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 07 May 2015 18:14:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [185.55.75.245] (helo=jarl.yagibdah.de) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YqV0E-0008SW-Dc for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 01:14:50 +0200 Original-Received: from br-dmz-ip.yagibdah.de ([192.168.1.1] helo=heimdali.yagibdah.de) by jarl.yagibdah.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YqV0D-0006eb-90 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 01:14:49 +0200 Original-Received: from lee by heimdali.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YqV0D-00060x-6v for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 01:14:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87sibcvps0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Mon, 04 May 2015 14:07:59 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85913 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > lee writes: > >> Eric Abrahamsen writes: >> >>> lee writes: >>> >>>> Andreas Schwab writes: >>>> >>>>> Perhaps you want to G m (gnus-group-make-group) a group with the nnmbox >>>>> backend, then B m (gnus-summary-move-article) the articles in there. >>>> >>>> That might work better, thanks. But how do I get rid of the groups I >>>> already created in order to figure this out? There has to be some way >>>> to delete nndoc groups. >>> >>> I haven't found a way yet :) >> >> Maybe that's a missing feature ... >> >>> Presumably you could close gnus, and edit the newsrc.eld file by hand. >>> That's usually a sign that you're doing something wrong, but in this >>> case I don't know what the alternative is! >> >> Unfortunately, that file isn't very editing-friendly. > > Most definitely not! > >> Now I have over a hundred spam messages in nnmbox:spam. But where is >> the mbox file they are in? I wanted to feed it to sa-learn and couldn't >> find it. > > That ought to be a group parameter: try hitting "G p" on the group > itself. You're looking for "nnmbox-mbox-file". That gives me a buffer with timestamp information. > It's possible I'm confused about this and it's actually a server > setting, in which case go into the *Server* buffer and hit "S" on the > server in question. ... gives me a buffer with '(nnmbox: "")' in it I don't even have a file called "*spam*" which could be relevant, and I searched my whole home directory with find for it. There are mails in that group, just no place where they are stored. What kind of magic is that? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.