From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37608 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: using v5.8.8, would like to compress a mail group Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:47:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172991 14729 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:03:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:03:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 2324 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2001 15:47:21 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Aug 2001 15:47:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 30436 invoked by uid 500); 8 Aug 2001 15:47:41 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org, dave@bfnet.com Original-To: dave@bfnet.com In-Reply-To: (dave@bfnet.com's message of "06 Aug 2001 18:07:19 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 23 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37608 dave@bfnet.com writes: > I'm using gnus v5.8.8, and I use nnmail-split-fancy to sort my mail > into groups. I have one mail group that is quite large that I want to > 'freeze' into a compressed state so that I can later 'thaw' it and > access it with all the ease that I currently do. Is there a gnus > function that will let me do this to a single group? No Gnus function that I know of, but with nnmaildir, you can tar up a group (including marks, but not group parameters) and delete the original. Then you can untar it later. > I don't expect to get mail that gets split into that group, but if I > do, will that mail get merged when I 'thaw?' With nnmaildir, you can't (yet) split mail into a nonexistent group. This would signal an error, probably. So after tarring, you'd delete the messages, but not the group itself. I think you could merge them later just by unpacking the tarball over the existing group. But if you're very paranoid, you might first want to check the output of "tar tf group.tar" to make sure none of the files already exist. paul