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Re: archiving mail with nnmail-expiry-target
From: |
Nelson Ferreira |
Subject: |
Re: archiving mail with nnmail-expiry-target |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:12:09 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) SXEmacs/22.1.6 (linux) |
"martin" == martin bishop@gmail com <martin.bishop@gmail.com> writes:
martin> Nelson Ferreira wrote:
[...]
martin> Yes, I'm using q to exit gnus. I've just tried using s as
martin> well and this also doesn't save the changes. I still get
martin> prompted by emacs at quit time to save
martin> Mail/Jun-2006/Inbox.
Barring any weird bug in Gnus, this leads me to think that Gnus is not
thinking of this folder as in it's active select methods...
And I think I know why. See how it is trying to place the archive
inside the Jun-2006 dir? This must be preventing Gnus from considering
that as a managed group. Try:
(setq nnmail-expiry-target
'(lambda (group)
(concat "nnfolder:"
(format-time-string "%b-%Y-" (current-time))
group)))
Notice that I replaced the '.' after the year with a dash.
martin> Must gnus open an mbox file in a buffer to append expired
martin> messages to it ?
Yes. That is how elisp handles updates to files.
martin> I'm starting to think that even if I can get it to save
martin> the changes, it is going to cause problems once I start
martin> having up to a month worth of various mailing list mboxes
martin> open in various buffers.
They will only be opened if:
a) You accessed them and did not exit the group
b) Some messages were recently expired there.
martin> Is going to a different backend for expiry-targets the
martin> only way to solve this ?
If the change I suggest above does not do it, then it is the only one
_I_ see. Maybe someone more knowledgeable here can give a better suggestion.
--
Nelson Ferreira