From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1199 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Davis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Why so much memory? Date: 20 Sep 2002 20:47:18 GMT Organization: Pageflex Inc Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667984 10153 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:39:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:47 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news-west.eli.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.cc.ukans.edu!stl-feed.news.verio.net!news.cmnh.org!phl-feed.news.verio.net!news.bitstream.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.103.147.252 Original-X-Trace: news.bitstream.com 1032554838 788 199.103.147.252 (20 Sep 2002 20:47:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: sysops@bitstream.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Sep 2002 20:47:18 GMT User-Agent: Xnews/L5 X-Face: @Pq3?My0v;TPXbg}b;pHV{1I-kH,?FV:1$wMunQgt%u;KIx8Jl%)8E;Tag?jQQu4+Q,/QiTe@x!bk'k@uXGAj?wVZSBSj}T1X}Yql~e]uv@#]I>5F:BJ;+\k5B&3hG3ZT8_{3>#[D)SbK/9t&3TG$L7SnV3G Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1339 Original-Lines: 45 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1339 Tue Jan 17 17:28:47 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1199 Archived-At: Karl Kleinpaste wrote in news:vxkhegkh9v1.fsf@cinnamon.vanillaknot.com: > Peter Davis writes: >> 1) "Aging" messages - this is different from expiry. I'd like >> messages from last year to be moved to an archive group. I could set >> up auto-expire to do this, but then I'd lose the feature of using >> 'expire' to delete unwanted messages after a week. > > When I want to delete unwanted messages, I use `B DEL' directly. I > use expiry group parameters on a per-group basis, thus: [...] Thanks. I had thought of doing something like this. I actually like the feature that messages I delete won't disappear immediately, though in fact, I *very* rarely need it. Perhaps your approach is the best. >> 2) Searching - Gnus doesn't provide any good way to search through >> old messages. I know about nnir, but so far, I have not succeeded in >> getting a search engine running on Windows to make this work. > > If you haven't tried it yet, give swish++ a shot. > http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/swish/ > I use it under Linux, but it purports to build under Windows as well, > as long as you have Cygwin installed, which can be obtained easily > enough. I do have Cygwin installed. I tried swish++ once, but never managed to produce an index. If I remember correctly, I wound up with a 0-sized index. Perhaps it's time to try again. Thanks, -pd -- -------- Peter Davis Pageflex Inc 617-520-8345 215 First Street 617-868-0784 (FAX) Cambridge, MA 02142 pdavis@pageflexinc.com http://www.pageflexinc.com