From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9899 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Widerkrantz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: An Idea for Gnus Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:17:13 +0100 Organization: Temple of the Moby Hack, http://hack.org/mc/ Message-ID: <86ode2p7dy.fsf@brain.hack.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194700636 2992 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2007 13:17:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:17:16 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 10 14:17:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IqqD8-0003hf-G7 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:17:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqqCw-0000u0-M5 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:17:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqqCu-0000tL-6P for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:17:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqqCt-0000t0-JJ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:17:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqqCt-0000sw-FV for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:17:03 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IqqCt-00045W-Fj for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:17:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IqqCi-0007Hi-7M for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:16:52 +0000 Original-Received: from mkb-128-158-209-82.3.cust.bredband2.com ([82.209.158.128]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:16:52 +0000 Original-Received: from mc by mkb-128-158-209-82.3.cust.bredband2.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:16:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mkb-128-158-209-82.3.cust.bredband2.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aN4Jq9cSXuhUhg60OzGerJPnaF0= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9899 Archived-At: Randy Yates writes: > Due to the way gnus stores sent mail in one long file, that > file has grown to be quite large, and now every time I send a mail > it takes some number of seconds for gnus just to append the sent > mail to the end of that file. Do you use a single nnfolder for archiving all your outgoing messages? You can fix this in a number of ways. One way is to automatically create a new nnfolder every month, like this: ;;; Archive my outgoing messages, both mail and news in a group called ;;; out.year-month. Use the nnfolder backend for the archives. (setq gnus-message-archive-group '((concat "out." (format-time-string "%Y-%m" (current-time))))) I keep them in a Topic called "Outgoing archive" and get a list like this on the top level: Outgoing archive: 12190 out.1999-05: 15 (77) out.1999-06: 110 (118) out.1999-07: 69 (88) out.1999-08: 196 (197) out.1999-09: 280 (350) ... out.2007-11: 118 (127) The number in parentheses are the total number of messages in that folder. Taken together they all currently take up 65 MB worth of sent messages since May 1999 when I had this configuration set up. I send very little attachments, so this is mostly text written by me. Wow. -- MC, http://hack.org/mc/