From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10800 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Backing up expired mail? Date: 24 Apr 1997 19:00:10 +0200 Sender: sb@norne.metis.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150612 26500 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:50:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:50:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA24066 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:28:32 -0700 Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 19:00:57 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 16217 invoked by uid 504); 24 Apr 1997 16:58:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16214 invoked from network); 24 Apr 1997 16:58:31 -0000 Original-Received: from abel.metis.no (HELO gw.metis.no) (193.90.64.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 24 Apr 1997 16:58:29 -0000 Original-Received: by gw.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA08027; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 19:00:15 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by mailhub.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA22421; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 19:00:09 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by norne.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA06017; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 19:00:11 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 24 Apr 1997 14:01:01 +0200 Original-Lines: 38 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.42/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10800 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10800 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : >>>>> Norman Walsh : >> Well, the idea is that I'd like to keep the folders that I actually >> read as small as possible to keep things as fast as possible, but >> I'm too paranoid to actually delete mail that I receive. So I move >> it out of my mail folders as soon as it's "deleted" and a few days >> old, then periodically I move it offline completely. I've wanted similar functionality, for just about the same reason. The problem with refiling to a host of other groups, is that stuff gets lost and forgotten. I don't think I'd want more than two levels (maybe the mail group itself, and another group with the same name, suffixed by ".old"). I'd also like all articles in the old folder to be compressed. >> For nnmh, I was able to build the functionality that I wanted with >> a perl script, but I want to switch to nnfolder and with all the >> mail in one big file, I'm afraid I'll munge things completely if I >> try to hack the folder file. > I'd suggest doing this from inside Gnus. Write a macro to enter the > group, process-mark all the articles and `B m' them to somewhere > else. Hm... is this a keyboard macro, or a lisp macro? (I've never quite understood lisp macros...). I guess I would try to write some emacs lisp code to do this, and then try to run that as a daemon (the way I run expiry now). What would be the best/simplest way to gzip the articles, after I've moved them? - Steinar