From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1655 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Dixon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Little help sorting please... Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 02:36:19 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Message-ID: References: <843coyth0c.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <84smwxnfy0.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <84fzsvmeg8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <84vg1nbjht.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668365 12232 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:46:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:29 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 X-Newsreader: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.30.176.96 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net Original-X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1040524579 67.30.176.96 (Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:36:19 PST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:36:19 PST Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1795 Original-Lines: 35 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1795 Tue Jan 17 17:29:29 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1655 Archived-At: > Mike Dixon writes: > > > :-> The archive file my post is saved to using the above is at the end of > > a nested set of dirs. For instance, if the group name is gnu.emacs.gnus > > and I post to that group, and my archive file is therefore named > > gnu.emacs.gnus.archive, using the code above I end up with > > ~/*/gnu/emacs/gnus/archive which is where the copy of my post is stored. I > > was hoping for a filename such as ~/*/gnu.emacs.gnus.archive (which it > > looked like I was going to get with "nnfolder:%s.archive"). > > Why is the filename important if you can access the stuff via the > group nnfolder+archive:gnu.emacs.gnus.archive? It should not be Because I don't know how to :-> I don't comprehend the whole Gnus virtual server/backend stuff (not for lack of trying). So like many I stick with what one is able to get working satisfactorily, not wanting to disturb what's arrived at, which for me was putting posts into files such as "sent-to-gnus.emacs.gnus." I use Gnus to read Usenet - not to become a Gnus-jock and most of the subtleties of Gnus are therefore lost on me. > That said, investigate the variables gnus-use-long-file-name and > nnmail-use-long-file-names. (Only Lars knows why one is singular and > the other is plural. Don't ask...) Thanks Kai - I'll look into them (or take another stab at trying to understand the whole backend thing). Thanks for your help and patience. Mike