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Hi.  I have several folders of archived messages in mbox format that I
only view every now and then.  I would like to keep them in mbox
format, but I don't need to rescan them every time to check for new
mail.  It seems like nnfolder does what I want, but I haven't been
able to make it go.

I already use nnfolder once to save copies of outgoing messages, but
setting it up in what seemed the obvious way doesn't work.  nnfolder
groups show up for nnfolder+archive and function as expected, but no
groups show up for nnfolder+old.  Can I also use nnfolder "old" at the
same time?

Here are the relevant portions of my .emacs...

(setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "mail")
      nnml-directory "~/nnmail/")
      mail-sources '((directory :path "~/mail/" :suffix ".in"))
      gnus-message-archive-method
            '(nnfolder "archive"
		       (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)
		       (nnfolder-active-file "~/mail/sent-dir/active")
		       (nnfolder-directory "~/mail/sent-dir/"))
      gnus-secondary-select-methods 
            '((nnimap "work"
		       (nnimap-address "localhost")
		       (nnimap-server-port 143)
		       )
	      (nnfolder "old"
			(nnfolder-directory "~/mail/archives")
			(nnfolder-active-file "~mail/archives-active")
			)
	      )
)

Thanks.
-- 
Matt Ranney - mjr@ranney.com