From: Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Setting Status header in nnml?
Date: 10 Feb 1999 11:18:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <glmyam6ut95.fsf@caffeine.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lloyd Zusman's message of "10 Feb 1999 11:11:15 -0500"
Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> I'm wondering about the feasibility of an idea: could Gnus set the
> `Status:' header to some sort of meaningful value(s) in the actual
> message files when using the nnml back end? This way, some external
> (i.e., non-Gnus) software could interrogate the new/read/unread/etc.
> status of email in the various nnml directories I'm using.
>
> This would also be nice within the other back ends, as well, such as
> nnfolder ... but perhaps this is already done in some of these ... ???
Well, that information already exists. For example, you could just
parse the ~/.newsrc.eld file.
Using Status headers in the way you describe might be possible, but
would be really expensive. For instance, if you did a catchup on a
group with many articles, Gnus would have to open each file and modify
it. This could take a really long time.
--
Justin Sheehy
In a cloud bones of steel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-10 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-10 16:11 Lloyd Zusman
1999-02-10 16:18 ` Justin Sheehy [this message]
1999-02-10 16:38 ` Lloyd Zusman
1999-02-10 19:59 ` Justin Sheehy
1999-02-11 0:05 ` Patrick Audley
1999-02-11 16:41 ` Justin Sheehy
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