From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8220 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Visiting mbox file temporarily Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:08:56 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163760028 1212 80.91.229.2 (17 Nov 2006 10:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 17 11:40:25 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 1Gl18s-0000DY-Rv for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:40:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gl18s-0006kq-DF for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:40:18 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Face: 'bg&jY[8V'W&:=~6w"|>}#4/T; w~36ei4NNMyKRR.a$n=$|sWFPF1y]a\>6kc\*#GN]UDM| Ywv, vbL^XF1nIp\:F=$Ei2o&mEe:%N~, :3]vtQ~s9u$9izmX$IF@VgGl7/, ^dbuM<3|AO2}.%|%?kZ 2Y=@\U!~cll^=8Z9ihKq%wmUe1Ky(#kl3T'>Qk0Ia3mCBsTk?E(,X Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kHcpRcIA3z9k+0UfKfQaKaxdGDM= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-ulm.de 1163758184 134.60.10.123 (17 Nov 2006 11:09:44 +0200) Original-Lines: 34 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-ulm.de!viandante.physik.uni-ulm.de!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:78405 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:8220 Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 17 2006, Geoff Kuenning wrote: > 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. [...] > 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 s/GNUS/Gnus/ > 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. Creating an ephemeral group: `G M some-name RET nndoc RET /path/to/mbox RET' (gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group "some-name" '(nndoc "/path/to/mbox" (nndoc-article-type mbox))) A foreign group `gnus-group-make-doc-group': `C-u G f /path/to/mbox m' Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/