creating gnus groups from symlinked msgs

creating gnus groups from symlinked msgs

[Harry Putnam]

I hope someone can give some ideas about this project I'm working on.

Just a small homeboy project.

I've written several different search tools over the years to plow
thru hefty collections of agentized messages with various search
terms.

I've experimented with the current approach before and have now come
back to it.

A perl script finds messages under my News/agent hierarchies ...or
anyplace msgs are keep in 1 file per message format.

It finds msgs based on 2 or even more rgx.

Doing the same thing inside gnus is really a bit out of the question
when dealing with 10,000 and more messages.

However by combining gnus and the external tools I'm getting a start
on something that seems promising to me.

I written some routines that create a directory in /tmp and fills it
with symlinks to the messages under News/agent.

Then I can created an nneething group to browse thru the compiled set
without having to try to manipulated huge numbers of messages in gnus.

Last time I did this, I seem to recall that the neething messages
looked much like others... That is, it showed From: and
Subject... etc.

Perhaps I'm confusing with a different backend.  But what I see now
appears that the From and Subject summary view is based on file owner
and filename, rendering the summary view useless.

Is there someway to generate nov in such a group?

I tried gnus-agent-regenerate-group but it doesn't do much of anything
or so it seems.  Only offering what seem like some odd choices.
Apparently that command has changes since a few yrs ago.

Or it just isn't expected to work on nneething.

Any ideas how I can make my directory of symlinks show up in gnus with
a reasonable (and usefull) summary buffer?