Re: Question about mail archive

[Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>]

"Georg C. F. Greve" <greve@gnu.org> writes:

> Although I should really investigate how to make the summary show the
> Recipient instead of the Sender for the archives of mails I sent... 

I set gnus-ignored-from-addresses in order to do that (and
message-dont-reply-to-names, because it's the same regexp).

(setq gnus-ignored-from-addresses 
      (concat "\\(Alex Schroeder <\\)?\\("
	      (regexp-opt
	       '("a.schroeder@xxx.ch"
		 "a.schroeder@xxx.com"
		 "asc@xxx.com"
		 "asc@xxx.ch"
		 "alex@gnu.org"
		 "pbem@xxx.ac.at"
		 "kensanata@yahoo.com"
		 "kensanata@xxx.ch"))
	      "\\)>?")
      message-dont-reply-to-names gnus-ignored-from-addresses)

> It should be possible to access the archive in a way that I ONLY get
> mail I wrote or mail I received, but also that I can have them
> displayed threaded. I fear this is a little too complex/complicated
> for any single program, though... :-)

Hey, this is Gnus, remember?  You should be able to use Gcc: headers
for outgoing mails (different per group you are in, depending on
gnus-posting-styles.  That will put the outgoing mails in different
folders.  Split the incoming mails into other folders, using
nnmail-split-methods (I use nnml as well).  Then create virtual groups
-- for each pair of incoming and outgoing messages of a certain type.
Now you have three groups for each type of message:  All, only
incoming or only outgoing.  All of them threaded, of course.

> But I have a few questions about the nnml Backend:
>  It is better suited for NFS, right?

Huh?  Why?  No, it's just one file per message, so maybe you waste a
lot of space on your harddisk (if messages are significantly smaller
than inodes/sectors/whatever -- but usually I just don't care).

>  How are the message file-names determined? Simply incremental?

Numbers, incremented automatically.

> If they synchronize, they should
> synchronize their archives and their normal mail groups with all flags
> so I know on both machines which mail I already replied to and which
> has been dealt with.

Hm, that would be harded...  Somebody else?  :)

Alex.
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