Re: how to work with nnfolder?

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:25:16 +0800, Easior wrote:

> ;; Tell gnus which method to use for archives (nnfolder)

[...]

> However, there is something weird happened. When I send a message by gnus,
> I'll find that a file named 'mail' will be created in the directory
> "~/.emacs.d/gnus/Mail/archive/sent/". In fact, it is not correct. Gnus
> should create a file, e.g. named '1', in the directory
> "~/.emacs.d/gnus/Mail/archive/sent/mail".

What gave you that impression?

nnfolder stores each _group_ in a file, not each mail.

See:

 * http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_201.html

As you have observed, nnml stores each _mail_ in a separate file; as
described in:

 * http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_194.html

> everything is ok. What's happened?

Looks like it works as advertised to me?


  :-),

    Adam

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