Re: nnfolder question

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> On 05 Aug 1997, Greg Thompson said:

  Greg> now some questions: can i have groups in subdirectories to make a
  Greg> heirarchy of saved mail files?

,----- C-h v gnus-use-long-file-name RET
| gnus-use-long-file-name's value is nil             
|                                                    
| Documentation:                                     
| *Non-nil means that the default name of a file to save articles in
| is the group name.
| If it's nil, the directory form of the group name is used instead.
|                                                    
| If this variable is a list, and the list contains the element
| `not-score', long file names will not be used for score files; if it
| contains the element `not-save', long file names will not be used for
| saving; and if it contains the element `not-kill', long file names
| will not be used for kill files.                   
|                                                    
| Note that the default for this variable varies according to what system
| type you're using.  On `usg-unix-v' and `xenix' this variable defaults
| to nil while on all other systems it defaults to t.
`-----

I think setting this variable to nil will make the group foo.bar
reside in the file foo/bar.  I've only used this with nnml groups, and
there nnml:foo.bar is a directory ~/Mail/foo/bar.

kai
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