From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38363 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Possible FAQ entry: How do I archive/restore my (nnml) mail? Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:21:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87ofp2vfrh.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174238 21978 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:23:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 13616 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2001 20:21:50 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 20:21:50 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id WAA14417 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:21:23 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id WAA09972; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:21:23 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id CE2D7206B; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:21:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:59:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38363 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38363 Simon Josefsson writes: > It is also possible to archive individual `nnml' or `nnfolder' > groups, while preserving marks. For `nnml', you recursively copy the > group's directory within the `nnml' server directory. For `nnfolder' > you need to copy both the base folder file itself, and the file named > by concatenating the base folder name with `.mkr'. Restoring the > groups is done with `G m' from the Group buffer. The last step makes > Gnus notice the new directory. I think it's mrk not mkr? Also, is `recursively' right here? For example, if I have a group nnml:foo and another group nnml:foo.bar, and if I want to archive the nnml:foo group, then I want to tar up all the files in ~/Mail/foo, but not the ~/Mail/foo/bar subdir. And finally, IMVHO the middle sentence looks a bit clumsy. What do you think about something along the lines of the following, err, lines? For `nnfolder' you need to copy both the base folder file itself (FOO, say), and the marks file (FOO.mrk in this example). Of course, these are just nitpicks. I like the section. kai -- Symbol's function definition is void: signature