From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8218 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Geoff Kuenning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Visiting mbox file temporarily Date: 17 Nov 2006 01:31:19 -0800 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163756469 22025 80.91.229.2 (17 Nov 2006 09:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:41:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 17 10:41:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gl0DM-0006zh-7D for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:40:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gl0DL-00040l-Gp for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:40:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uninett.no!news.banetele.no!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: wl-146.cine.hmc.edu Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1163755879 29480 134.173.200.146 (17 Nov 2006 09:31:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:31:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:78403 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:8218 Archived-At: I archive my mail in mbox format, and don't have a very good method for browsing those archives. It seems to me that the nnmbox package ought to be able to let me browse them in a read-only mode. However, my preliminary feeble experiments haven't been successful, and I don't have the time to wade through nnmbox.el right now. First, is it possible (and simple) to point nnmbox at an arbitrary file? Second, is it reasonable to use nnmbox for this kind of browsing? The interface I'd like is something like: M-x nnmbox-visit-file RET ~/mail/archives/foobar RET at which point I would be in a friendly GNUS interface with a summary buffer and the ability to wash articles. I don't mind hacking up a bit of elisp to provide scaffolding to support this idea. (Suggestions for alternate archival formats will be appreciated, but since I have many years of old archives, the above question still applies.) -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@cs.hmc.edu http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ Microsoft's motto: "We Have Worked Out All The Buggs" -- Dave Barry