From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1287 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Rogoff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: questions switching from vm to gnus to email Date: 05 Oct 2002 22:11:36 -0700 Organization: The Rogoffs Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668085 10655 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:41:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:55 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!News.GigaNews.Com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 00:11:37 CDT Original-Sender: drogoff@DROGOFF-LAPTOP Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management (Windows [1])) Original-X-Trace: sv3-sBJ7F70WgoT1EcHAnGZS/m+EkpdiXquuOiBWSIRL4cIoBEAF5D/BHJEGNdA+E6ajP3E6DO7kwb+txES!sPC10l3nVqCsgpYHl4GqX6Zb6rPcAeepPJw/77+EL4nslA== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@GigaNews.Com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1427 Original-Lines: 56 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1427 Tue Jan 17 17:28:55 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1287 Archived-At: Jesper Harder writes: > David Rogoff 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. Splitting is useless for what I'm trying to do. I already have over a thousand messages sorted into folders. I just want those folders converted to nnfolders. > > 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. This is insane: it would take hours to do this for all the folders I have. Why can't Gnus import a whole directory tree? Even Outlook Express and Netscape can do this. Are you telling me that in infinately powerful emacs/gnus I have to do this manually? > > > 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. This is still folder by folder. What I'm trying to do is set parameters for groups of folders (e.g. all mail folders). Also, one thing I use all the time in vm (and Agent, in Windows) is the feature of having several mail/news folders displayed at once. It looks like Gnus can only have one group buffer and one article buffer at a time. Is is really so limited? I know switching to Gnus for mail reading takes some attitude adjustment, but I expect it to be able to do everything other mail readers can do, even takes a different route to get there. Thanks for replying, David