From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1126 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: mail group ('G f') not expiring/shrinking Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:16:14 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: References: <86k7m0c50o.fsf@number6.magda.ca> <65xcgd5r.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667943 9921 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:39:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:40 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.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!eusc.inter.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4bzHguMJCgeFRqZLLGtYwP//yms= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1266 Original-Lines: 28 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1266 Tue Jan 17 17:28:40 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1126 Archived-At: Clemens Fischer writes: > well, i rerad this and many other entries several times, and i reread > it here in your citation, and if i hadn't experimented, it would still > not be clear to me (although you even suggested using :directory in > private email, but with no apparent reason). why not tell people: > "using :directory will prohibit gnus from further splitting the > mail-source, but it will do so when using :file." i want that to be > clearly stated, because at that time i had many old mbox-type folders > in the incoming directory, some of which where prefiltered by > procmail. also, those files did not have any distinguishing marks > like some suffix. this made me think i should rather use the :file > attribute to be more picky. Now there is another paragraph after the one you cited: /---- | There is also the variable `nnmail-resplit-incoming', if you set | that to a non-nil value, then the normal splitting process is | applied to all the files from the directory, *Note Splitting | Mail::. \---- Does that make it clearer? kai -- ~/.signature is: umop 3p!sdn (Frank Nobis)