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From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus-message-archive-group is too big!
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:10:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vee2af0e.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3bqfu4uko.fsf@ieee.org>

----- Randy Yates (2007-06-05) wrote:-----

>> Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:
>>
>>> I've set this variable to point to a file to store all outgoing
>>> messages. Unfortunately it stores EVERYTHING in one long humoungous
>>> file. It's now over 100 MB long. It's taking to long to access it.
>>>
>>> Is there any cure for this short of moving it out of the directory
>>> so that gnus starts a new file? That is, is there any automated way
>>> for gnus to split the file up?
>
> Hello? Is this thing on???
>
> --RY

You can use a different backend that supports one message per file.

For example,

(setq gnus-message-archive-group
      '((if (message-news-p)
            "nnml:Sent-News"
          "nnml:Sent-Mails")))

HTH,
-- 
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-05 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-01 16:59 Randy Yates
2007-06-05  9:30 ` Randy Yates
2007-06-05 10:10   ` Leo [this message]

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