Re: Save mail in multiple mbox files

[William F Hammond]

"\" \"" <moocow@mindless.com> writes:

>>> What I would like is
>>>   * gnus reads from imap
>>>   * I can store an article (mail message) in a file (mbox format)
>>>     with an arbitrary name
>>
>> This can certainly be done with nnmbox as a secondary selection method
>> by setting up mail-sources suitably.
>
> But this may not be practical.
> If one has 200 files, each with mail from different people, projects
> would one have to set up 200 mail sources ?

I did not intend to suggest that.  I took it as given that the
mail-source was an imap server.  However, if mail is being fetched
outside of gnus to a location like /var/mail/username, then it would
be reasonable to set up the dump files as gnus mail-sources of type
"file".

                                    -- Bill