From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13389 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Washing mail permanently Date: 04 Jan 1998 10:19:47 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152765 9062 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:26:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA24001 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 01:49:14 -0800 Original-Received: from farabi.hpc.uh.edu (farabi.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA13943 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 03:49:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([10.1.1.1]) by farabi.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAN14660; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 11:42:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 04 Jan 1998 03:32:44 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA18182 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 03:31:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 26954 invoked by uid 504); 4 Jan 1998 09:31:41 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26945 invoked from network); 4 Jan 1998 09:31:40 -0000 Original-Received: from xyplex11.uio.no (HELO sparky.gnus.org) (129.240.154.31) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 1998 09:31:39 -0000 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA11648; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:59:12 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Fredrik "Glöckner"'s message of "20 Dec 1997 17:26:40 +0100" X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.19/XEmacs 19.15 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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'. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen