From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26567 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Marsden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Archive of sent mail grew too large. Date: 10 Nov 1999 09:57:34 +0100 Organization: LAAS-CNRS http://www.laas.fr/ Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87r9hzplr2.fsf@main.wgaf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163751 20071 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:29:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:29:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA02143 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 03:58:10 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB02374; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 02:58:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 10 Nov 1999 02:58:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA12455 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 02:58:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from laas.laas.fr (root@laas.laas.fr [140.93.0.15]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA02138 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 03:57:43 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from dukas.laas.fr (dukas [140.93.21.58]) by laas.laas.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA25855 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:57:30 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from emarsden@localhost) by dukas.laas.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA20239; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:57:34 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Eric-Conspiracy: there is no conspiracy X-Attribution: ecm X-URL: http://www.chez.com/emarsden/ In-Reply-To: Karl EICHWALDER's message of "10 Nov 1999 06:22:04 +0100" Original-Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26567 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26567 >>>>> "ke" == Karl EICHWALDER 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) -- Eric Marsden It's elephants all the way down