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David Rogoff <david@therogoffs.com> writes:

> Next, the never-ending question of backends.  I have about 15 years of
> old email and news save in a directory tree of mbox/rfc822 format
> files.  Should I:
>
> a) keep doing what I have been doing: saving mail/news in mbox format
> and visiting the files from gnus (G D) to look at them later?
>
> b) convert the old stuff into nnfolder. Is there a script to convert a
> large tree of mboxes?  If I convert all the folders, then is there a
> way to access them as a tree from the Group buffer?  The problem I see
> is that my 200 or so folders will appear as one huge, flat,
> unmanagable list.

See the node "Incorporating old mail" in the manual.  The recipe there
assumes that you have set up mail splitting rules.  

If you haven't done that (as it appears from your .gnus), then instead
of respooling in step 5 (`B r'), you can copy (`B c') your old mail to a
new destination.

> Finally (for now), I want to set some groups (my email groups) to
> always show old messages. The Gnus Tutorial I was reading said to use
> gnus-parameters to do this by group name. I don't see this
> variable. Any pointers?

Do `G c' (gnus-group-customize) or `G p'
(gnus-group-edit-group-parameters) on the group from the group buffer.