From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62510 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gdt@work.lexort.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: deleting last article in nnmh? Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:30:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144193442 29918 80.91.229.2 (4 Apr 2006 23:30:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 23:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11037@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Apr 05 01:30:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FQuyl-0006PV-Jp for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:30:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FQuyi-0003mM-00; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:30:28 -0500 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FQuyJ-0003mH-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FQuyI-0001Qp-Oy for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from linuxpal.mit.edu ([18.62.1.14]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FQuyH-000187-00 for ; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:30:01 +0200 Original-Received: by linuxpal.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9545) id A028612D; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 19:30:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: David Z Maze In-Reply-To: (David Z. Maze's message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:38:48 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62510 Archived-At: David Z Maze writes: > This is a "feature" of nnmh. In Gnus's newsreaderly view of the > world, article numbers need to be monotonically increasing, but in > nnmh the only state is the article numbers themselves. I can't find a > mention of it in the manual, though. nnmh.el defines a function > nnmh-deletable-article-p which is called from a couple of places with > a comment "We can never delete the last article in the group"; you > could conceivably set > > ;; Don't even think about setting this variable. It does not exist. > ;; Forget about it. Uh-huh. Nope. Nobody here. It's only bound > ;; dynamically by certain functions in nndraft. > (defvar nnmh-allow-delete-final nil) > > to t. > > Unless you're actively using another MH-based mail client (MH-E, > scan/show/...) you might consider using nnml as a mail backend instead > of nnmh. It has the same one-file-per-message format ("you can still > grep your mail") with an added .overview file that contains the > subjects and senders of each message, which makes scanning a folder a > lot faster. I'll try setting that variable, since all I'm trying to do is use gnus to move my old mail from existing nnmh mailboxes into IMAP, preserving the ticked flag. (I did used to use MH-E, and I used procmail to deliver into nnmh - I don't use gnus for splitting, wanting my mail presplit, especially now that I use IMAP and other clients (including a Palm TX) to look at INBOX. Thanks very much for the hint. -- Greg Troxel