From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/798 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Moore Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Setting up select methods to read from a directory of mbox files Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:45:02 +0100 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 1138667708 8461 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:35:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:07 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!morpheus.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: morpheus.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: morpheus.demon.co.uk:158.152.8.30 Original-X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1027176222 nnrp-07:10489 NO-IDENT morpheus.demon.co.uk:158.152.8.30 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter Hamster-Pg/1.1.0.0 (Windows [3]), i586-pc-win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f3Nc1CPoD1oZOPVgH6zbLzNWl5M= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:938 Original-Lines: 14 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 938 Tue Jan 17 17:28:07 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:798 Archived-At: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai writes: > The nneething backend is kinda like dired in Gnus. Maybe it's what > you're looking for. I think you can use `G D' to create a group > pointing to a directory. It's sort of what I want - I had a go with it. The problem is that it doesn't recognise the mbox files in the directory as such, and so they look like simple mail messages, rather than like groups. It's one of those annoying issues where lots of things are *almost* right, but nothing I've found is 100% there... Paul.