Re: Setting up select methods to read from a directory of mbox files

Re: Setting up select methods to read from a directory of mbox files

[Paul Moore]

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.

Re: Setting up select methods to read from a directory of mbox files

[Josh Huber]

Paul Moore <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk> writes:

> 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...

Deja vu!

Thread starting here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=87n18dovc7.fsf%40mclinux.com

And another message posted here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=87k837zug1.fsf%40mclinux.com

I posted this stuff a while back, and I've since migrated everything
to nnml and maildir mailboxes, so it's not really an issue anymore.

This was also back in the day (wow, it's been a year?) before I
actually stared hacking Gnus code.

ttyl,

-- 
Josh Huber

Re: Setting up select methods to read from a directory of mbox files

[Paul Moore]

Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu> writes:
> Thread starting here:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=87n18dovc7.fsf%40mclinux.com
>
> And another message posted here:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=87k837zug1.fsf%40mclinux.com

Following a few links a bit further in this, I have found a
(partially) working solution. By creating a new nnfolder virtual
server, I have managed to get my directory of files readable in Gnus
the way I want.

The only problem is that this method alters the mbox files, by adding
an X-Gnus-Article-Number header to each article. This stops me from
being able to re-download the file and see new messages - trying to do
so gets Gnus very confused...

I guess this is similar to the issue others have complained of in the
newsgroup, that Gnus "owns" all of the files it works with, and having
other programs access them is not allowed. Grumble. Is there a way
round this?

Paul.

Re: Setting up select methods to read from a directory of mbox files

[Kai Großjohann]

Paul Moore <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk> writes:

> 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.

Argh.  This should be changed.  I don't have the time to do it,
though.  Sorry.

kai
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