From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38277 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: self-contained nnml Date: 24 Aug 2001 18:00:01 -0500 Sender: rlb@defaultvalue.org Message-ID: <87wv3tqd1q.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174168 21522 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:22:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:22:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 422 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2001 22:59:58 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com (HELO defaultvalue.org) (postfix@209.87.109.2) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Aug 2001 22:59:58 -0000 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9998EFC9; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:59:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EEE6251A3; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:00:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 28 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38277 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38277 Simon Josefsson writes: > Once the .marks file has been (automatically) created you should be > able to tar up a nnml server, move it to some other machine or back > it on tape up or whatever, and be able to plunk it back into a Gnus > and the marks should be discovered. You could also be able to share > a nnml server between users, and have flags shared as well. So does this also apply for a group within a server? i.e. could I "B m" a bunch of articles from nnml+rlb:ding-gnus to nnml+rlb:ding-gnus-2000 and then tar up and remove the ding-gnus-2000 directory without seriously confusing gnus? Similarly could I restore the group by dropping it back into place in the filesystem? BTW, this is something I've wanted for a *long* time, so thanks for the work. I'm was just in the process of trying to see if I could switch to nnmaildir for this very reason. so now I guess I'll have to decide between two backends :> One nice thing about nnmaildir is that it's supposed to automatically see groups that appear/disappear from the filesystem without getting confused. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD