Re: periodic archiving of groups?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> I wouldn't mind having to do this manually, though it'd be really nice
> to have an automated way to handle it.
> 
> I might be interested in writing the elisp for this if someone could
> get me pointed in the right direction (I'd want to base the splitting
> on the actual message date, not the article numbers...)

The elisp for most of it is already written.  You seem to be talking
of nnml groups here (judging from previous post).  You can do this by
writing a separtate set of split rules and keeping them in a separate
file.  When you want to do this archiving you would load that file
which would override the split in .gnus.  Then enter the subject
group with C-u <RET> mark all but the last mnths messages by using the
limit `/ t' features then respool them according to your newly loaded
rules.

The new rules will look like:
(setq nnmail-split-methods 
  '(("SOMEGROUP_FEB-00" "^Date:.*Feb.*2000") 
     ("SOMEGROUP_MAR-00" "^Date:.*Mar.*2000")
etc etc
When done have gnus reread ~/.gnus or restart, to reload the original
split urules then back to business as usual.

You'll probably need to run `nnml-generate-nov-databases' since some
groups will have been severely truncated.  


etc etc