Re: Backing up expired mail?

[Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net> writes:
> 
> > I get the impression from the info pages that expired mail is deleted.
> > (Duh! ;-)  But I wonder, is it possible to move the expired mail into
> > a backup folder instead?
> 
> If you don't want to delete old mail, why do you want to move it?
> Can't you just keep it in the group?

Well, the idea is that I'd like to keep the folders that I actually
read as small as possible to keep things as fast as possible, but I'm
too paranoid to actually delete mail that I receive.  So I move it out
of my mail folders as soon as it's "deleted" and a few days old, then
periodically I move it offline completely.

For nnmh, I was able to build the functionality that I wanted with a
perl script, but I want to switch to nnfolder and with all the mail in
one big file, I'm afraid I'll munge things completely if I try to hack
the folder file.

On the other hand, if you can point me to some doc that describes exactly
what I need to change/update when I remove lines from an nnfolder file,
I'll happily update my hacks ;-)

--norm