Re: Washing mail permanently

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Fredrik "Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> writes:

> I would like a function that cleans some of my mail archive
> permanently, that is: It should remove (long) signatures, remove
> surplus quotations and so on to save disk space.  My mail archives are
> in nnml format, and some of the actual files are compressed.
> 
> Have anybody got experience as to how such a function should look
> like?  Is there support in Gnus for doing such things?

There isn't any support for doing this, but it could be done from
Gnus.  In essence: go through all nnml groups, select all articles,
and for each article, run the required washing functions, delete the
invisible text and do an `nnml-request-replace-article'.

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