From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Marks are going to be removed from Ma Gnus
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:56:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkckay45.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipjbhitf.fsf@gnus.org>
On Sun, Feb 12 2012, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I've never understood the point of having marks in nnml, nnfolder and
> nntp. Other than "oo, the .newsrc.eld file is so scary".
Well, the arguments mentioned in (info "(gnus)Mail Spool") seem
reasonable, at least for nnfolder and nnml. But I have disabled them
for nntp since day one.
,----[ (info "(gnus)Mail Spool") ]
| When the marks file is used (which it is by default), `nnml' servers
| have the property that you may backup them using `tar' or similar, and
| later be able to restore them into Gnus (by adding the proper `nnml'
| server) and have all your marks be preserved. Marks for a group are
| usually stored in the `.marks' file (but see `nnml-marks-file-name')
| within each `nnml' group's directory. Individual `nnml' groups are
| also possible to backup, use `G m' to restore the group (after
| restoring the backup into the nnml directory).
`----
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-15 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-12 20:56 Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-12 21:06 ` James Cloos
2012-02-13 19:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-13 20:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-12 21:14 ` Steinar Bang
2012-02-13 0:01 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2012-02-13 9:18 ` Didier Verna
2012-02-13 11:19 ` Peter Münster
2012-02-13 11:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-02-13 15:51 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2012-02-13 16:48 ` Peter Münster
2012-02-13 17:37 ` cannot cancel message (was: Marks are going to be removed from Ma Gnus) Peter Münster
2012-02-13 19:24 ` cannot cancel message Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-13 19:40 ` Peter Münster
2012-02-13 19:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-13 17:34 ` all in one folder (was: Marks are going to be removed from Ma Gnus) Peter Münster
2012-02-13 16:57 ` Marks are going to be removed from Ma Gnus Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-13 22:43 ` Steinar Bang
2012-02-13 23:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-13 13:40 ` Carson Chittom
2012-02-13 19:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-13 16:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-15 15:56 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2012-02-16 5:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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