From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/982 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: Re-sorting *lots* of old mail Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:00:10 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany 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 1138667827 9203 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:37:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:37:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:26 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!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:hdf8s/tYMjeRGeHtidD3r+WnX0Q= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1122 Original-Lines: 17 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1122 Tue Jan 17 17:28:26 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:982 Archived-At: "Peter Davis" writes: > I have one nnml group with about 30,000 messages in it. I'd like to split > it by year into different groups (e.g., nnml:stuff1998, nnml:stuff1999, > etc.). Is there some way to do that which: > > 1) I can start running and leave overnight or something? Unless it's *very* > fast, it will take a long time to process all these messages. > > 2) Will keep the the .overview file(s) correct in all groups? If you can set up split rules that work, then it should work to just `B r' all them messages. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)