Re: Open an mbox file?

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

On Wed, Feb 02 2005, John Sullivan wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 02 2005, Norman Walsh wrote:
>>
>>> I have an mbox file (ndw.mbox from dspam). I want to open it, just to
>>> extract a couple of bits of non-spam. [...]
>> `G f ~/ndw.mbox RET' or `C-u G f ~/ndw.mbox RET m' ...
> [...]
>> After entering the group, just extract the non-spam articles using
>> copy (B c) or respool (B r).
>
> Depending on why the OP wants to do this, this might not work. If
> the reason they want to extract some articles from a spam group is
> because they are not spam, then that might mean they want to
> actually remove those articles from the spam group, so that they
> aren't learned as spam.

Norman wrote that he wants to get some of the messages.  At least this
is what I understood and my crystal ball didn't mention training with
a modified ndw.mbox file.

> With this method, you can't actually move articles _out_ of the
> group/file, can you?

Correct.  nndoc is read-only.

Bye, Reiner.
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