...slow... saving with default gcc archiving...

...slow... saving with default gcc archiving...

[Erik Selberg]

I did some checking into this... I'm using the "default" Gcc'ing,
which means when I send a mail message, a copy is saved into the file
misc-mail which looks like mbox format. Anyway, this file gets _big_
quickly, and consequentially everytime I save a file, I end up
opening, appending, and saving this 10M file. Takes a couple seconds. 

Is there some way of improving this? Either by having misc-mail be
nnml instead of the one file? Or by breaking misc-mail automatically?

Thanks,
-Erik
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Re: ...slow... saving with default gcc archiving...

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Erik Selberg <selberg@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> I did some checking into this... I'm using the "default" Gcc'ing,
> which means when I send a mail message, a copy is saved into the file
> misc-mail which looks like mbox format. Anyway, this file gets _big_
> quickly, and consequentially everytime I save a file, I end up
> opening, appending, and saving this 10M file. Takes a couple seconds. 
> 
> Is there some way of improving this? Either by having misc-mail be
> nnml instead of the one file? Or by breaking misc-mail automatically?

>From the manual:

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

This will create a new archive group for each month's worth of
outgoing mail.

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