From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18480 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Archiving entire nnmail group to a single file? Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:22:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87zikfzmie.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <87mvfxo4we.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481814769 19008 195.159.176.226 (15 Dec 2016 15:12:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:12:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: "Loris Bennett" Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 15 16:12:42 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cHXi6-0003jy-5d for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:12:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHXiA-0005XV-He for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:12:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47494) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHV41-0000rT-5B for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:23:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHV3w-00044B-HO for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:23:09 -0500 Original-Received: from sinyavsky.aurox.ch ([37.35.109.145]:58864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHV3w-00040V-8B for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from sinyavsky.aurox.ch (sinyavsky.aurox.ch [127.0.0.1]) by sinyavsky.aurox.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE60222DE for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:20:50 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: sinyavsky.aurox.ch (amavisd-new); dkim=pass reason="pass (just generated, assumed good)" header.d=aurox.ch DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=aurox.ch; h= content-type:content-type:mime-version:message-id:in-reply-to :date:date:references:subject:subject:to:from:from; s=dkim; t= 1481804444; x=1482668445; bh=mKaOiUlxOWvjdDpBvSYsUYA0+bnmzV+kzqR CFTDeTJo=; b=U3aad02ujb/ndMXbIoZiFymzcSPf55M6jpQqxeABvndxrviWjGT 4vuBLY6msNQVZwDmlnUmAt6gwo97lqmuBYBT29xPFddbwie8+uqB7SaZvyEaFiaY 5D2l03jlomm9LiFstevr//Zp0X0PYYM2k3XHJhwpJKJBLO4O6BzTFFeE= X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at test.virtualizor.com Original-Received: from sinyavsky.aurox.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by sinyavsky.aurox.ch (sinyavsky.aurox.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id EJ2ub9cZgq3L for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:20:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from gray (54.4.4.85.dynamic.wline.res.cust.swisscom.ch [85.4.4.54]) by sinyavsky.aurox.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A4E67222AE; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:20:44 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87mvfxo4we.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (Loris Bennett's message of "Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:36:33 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 37.35.109.145 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:03:14 -0500 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18480 Archived-At: Hi Loris, Set the variable `gnus-prompt-before-saving' to t, mark all the articles you want to save (say, by typing `M P b' in the Group buffer), then hit an output key like `O r' (for rmail format) or `o' (for the default format) and type the name of the file you want the mail to be saved in. If you're archiving a lot of mail this can take a while. See here for more details: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Saving-Articles.html Hope this helps. Cheers, Charles "Loris Bennett" writes: > "Loris Bennett" writes: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there a way of archiving an entire nnmail group to a single file? I >> have several groups, each corresponding to a year of mail, which I would >> like to archive. All the information I found relates to archiving >> individual messages. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Loris > > I didn't get any replies to this, so I'll rephrase the question: > > If I have an email account which I am accessing via IMAP, what > approaches could I take using Gnus to archiving some of the mail > folders to disk? > > Cheers, > > Loris