From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39007 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Wells Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: converting archive group to different format without losing marks Date: 28 Sep 2001 12:09:33 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174784 25585 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:33:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:33:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 28867 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2001 11:11:55 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 28 Sep 2001 11:11:55 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15mvX5-00089z-00; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 06:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 28 Sep 2001 06:09:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA07870 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 06:09:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 28774 invoked by alias); 28 Sep 2001 11:09:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28769 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2001 11:09:58 -0000 Original-Received: from izanami.cee.hw.ac.uk (exim@137.195.52.9) by gnus.org with SMTP; 28 Sep 2001 11:09:58 -0000 Original-Received: from nike ([137.195.52.90] helo=localhost.localdomain ident=root) by izanami.cee.hw.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15mvWk-0004Am-00 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:09:54 +0100 Original-Received: (from jbw@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA25512; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:09:33 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jbw set sender to jbw@izanami.cee.hw.ac.uk using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39007 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39007 Dear Gnus Experts, My current usage of Gnus is as follows: (gnus-version) => "Gnus v5.8.8" gnus-message-archive-group => "misc-mail" Can you please tell me how to convert my old "nnfolder+archive:misc-mail" group to use a better format, e.g., perhaps "nnml"? The more precise the details, the better. I would like to have all of my outgoing messages in a single group for easy access, but the "nnfolder" backend puts them all in one file which requires this file to be loaded into Emacs. As my outgoing mail archive is huge, this uses a lot of memory unnecessarily. I want to convert my old group into the new format without losing any marks on articles in that group. So this rules out respooling the articles into a new back end because that loses marks. Do I have to write custom Emacs Lisp code to accomplish this? -- Joe Wells