Archive of sent mail grew too large.

Archive of sent mail grew too large.

[Arcady Genkin]

Oh, horror, my archive of sent mail is over 11MB in size! I'm using
nnfolder to archive mails. When I send a new email, I have to wait for
a second or more, until the copy gets saved in
nnfolder+archive:Mail. This bothers me.

What would be a preferred way of handling this? I understand I can
just backup the old Mail/archives/Mail file, and start a new one, but
what if I want to see a message that's archived away in the old file?

What's the preferred way of handling this? I don't want to expire sent
mail.

Thanks!
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Re: Archive of sent mail grew too large.

[Eric Marsden]

I use this:

   (setq gnus-message-archive-group
         '((if (message-news-p)
               "misc-news"
             (concat "mail." (format-time-string
                              "%Y-%m" (current-time))))))
   
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Re: Archive of sent mail grew too large.

[Karl EICHWALDER]

Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr> writes:

|      (setq gnus-message-archive-group
|            '((if (message-news-p)
|                  "misc-news"
|                (concat "mail." (format-time-string
|                                 "%Y-%m" (current-time))))))

I'm using:

(setq gnus-message-archive-group
      '((if (message-news-p)
	  (concat "news." (format-time-string "%Y-%m"))
	  (concat "mail." (format-time-string "%Y-%m")))))

Calling explicitly current-time is superfluous.  But what bugs me, is
that I'm always asked whether it's allowed to delete the backup copy.
Yes, I'm using (version-control t).  How is it possible to tell Gnus not
to produce numbered backups for my archived messages?

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Re: Archive of sent mail grew too large.

[Eric Marsden]

>>>>> "ke" == Karl EICHWALDER <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

  ke> what bugs me, is that I'm always asked whether it's allowed to
  ke> delete the backup copy. Yes, I'm using (version-control t). How
  ke> is it possible to tell Gnus not to produce numbered backups for
  ke> my archived messages?

I presume that this will also work with numbered backups (but I'm not
certain): 
  
   ;; disable backups for files in /tmp or in my Mail or News directories.
   (defun ecm-backup-enable-predicate (filename)
     (and (not (string= "/tmp/" (substring filename 0 5)))
          (not (string-match "/Mail/" filename))
          (not (string-match "/News/" filename))))
   
   (setq backup-enable-predicate 'ecm-backup-enable-predicate)

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