Re: Exporting/archiving nnml group?

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Mon, Nov 12 2007, Zlatko Calusic wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>> On Tue, Nov 06 2007, Tassilo Horn wrote:
[...]
>> This part is not necessary.
>
> Maybe (and it looks simpler), 

I tried to expres that this part (gnus-group-make-group) of Tassilo's
suggestion is not necessary.  I think you can simply...

>>> enter the nnml group, mark all messages with `M P b'
>>> and copy them to the mbox with `B c nnmbox:name RET'.

> but using 'O m' revealed 2 problems.
>
> First, it asked me to confirm the saving location for each and every
> mail it was about to append to mailbox file. Press RETURN 1879 times?
> No, thank you! :) I don't know how to stop that from happenining.

How about reading the info node that I have cited?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Saving Articles") ]
| If you save bunches of articles using these
| functions, you might get tired of being prompted for files to save each
| and every article in.  The prompting action is controlled by the
| `gnus-prompt-before-saving' variable, which is `always' by default,
| giving you that excessive prompting action you know and loathe.  If you
| set this variable to `t' instead, you'll be prompted just once for each
| series of articles you save.  If you like to really have Gnus do all
| your thinking for you, you can even set this variable to `nil', which
| means that you will never be prompted for files to save articles in.
| Gnus will simply save all the articles in the default files.
`----

> Second thing (much less problematic) it marks every article as
> saved. This might not be what people want when they're just making a
> backup copy.

Hm, I don't think we have a user interface to (un)set secondary marks.

Bye, Reiner.
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