From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10771 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Norman Walsh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Backing up expired mail? Date: 22 Apr 1997 05:07:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: norm@berkshire.net NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150586 26282 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:49:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:49:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA16578 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 05:39:14 -0700 Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:09:33 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 6756 invoked by uid 504); 22 Apr 1997 12:07:12 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6751 invoked from network); 22 Apr 1997 12:07:11 -0000 Original-Received: from ruby.ora.com (207.25.98.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 1997 12:07:10 -0000 Original-Received: from hermes.berkshire.net (root@norm2.berkshire.net [206.72.196.74]) by ruby.ora.com (8.6.13/8.6.11) with SMTP id IAA13613; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 08:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: by hermes.berkshire.net id m0wJbXa-000HokC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.37); Tue, 22 Apr 97 05:07 EDT Original-To: larsi@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 21 Apr 1997 02:35:24 +0200 Original-Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.45/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10771 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10771 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Norman Walsh 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