From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13439 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Franklin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Washing mail permanently Date: 04 Jan 1998 21:58:40 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152806 9307 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:26:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:26:46 +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 WAA10916 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 22:01:19 -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 AAA02619 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 00:01:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@[10.1.1.1]) by farabi.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAN17010; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 08:07:21 -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 23:59:04 -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 XAA07502 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 23:58:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 31987 invoked by uid 504); 5 Jan 1998 05:58:42 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 31984 invoked from network); 5 Jan 1998 05:58:42 -0000 Original-Received: from hirame.cs.washington.edu (128.95.4.41) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 1998 05:58:41 -0000 Original-Received: (paul@localhost) by hirame.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ws+) id VAA26934; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 21:58:41 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "04 Jan 1998 10:19:47 +0100" Original-Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13439 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13439 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Fredrik "Glöckner" 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'. Hmm. At least for some washing functions, this is fairly easy, due to what might actually be a bug. Take this example: W q e C-c C-c (This word-wraps the current message, edits it, and immediately exits from editing.) Even though you didn't make any changes while editing, the message gets saved, and it's now word-wrapped forever. I regularly take advantage of this feature (misfeature?). --Paul