* gnus-summary-save-in-rmail
@ 2009-06-23 20:54 Jay Berkenbilt
2009-06-23 23:15 ` gnus-summary-save-in-rmail Glenn Morris
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From: Jay Berkenbilt @ 2009-06-23 20:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
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In emacs 23, rmail will use mbox format. Is BABYL format being
deprecated overall? Does this make the gnus-summary-save-in-rmail
function misnamed since it seems to still write in BABYL format? Is
this still a suitable default value for gnus-default-article-saver?
Just a thought. I have 20 years of email saved as monthly gzipped BABYL
files. I'd been thinking about converting them to mbox format anyway
since it's a much more widely recognized format and a little easier to
work with. I mostly access my old mail files with gnus rather than
rmail now anyway though.
--
Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
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* Re: gnus-summary-save-in-rmail
2009-06-23 20:54 gnus-summary-save-in-rmail Jay Berkenbilt
@ 2009-06-23 23:15 ` Glenn Morris
2009-06-23 23:31 ` gnus-summary-save-in-rmail Jay Berkenbilt
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From: Glenn Morris @ 2009-06-23 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jay Berkenbilt; +Cc: emacs-devel
Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> In emacs 23, rmail will use mbox format. Is BABYL format being
> deprecated overall?
I would say so. Emacs 23 can't do anything with Babyl files without
converting them to mbox. (You can look at them without saving the
change though.)
> Does this make the gnus-summary-save-in-rmail function misnamed
> since it seems to still write in BABYL format?
I don't think so. It writes "the format used by rmail" rather than
"babyl format". From the doc of gnus-output-to-rmail, which
gnus-summary-save-in-rmail calls:
In Emacs 22 this writes Babyl format; in Emacs 23 it writes mbox
unless FILENAME exists and is Babyl format.
> Is this still a suitable default value for gnus-default-article-saver?
It seems a reasonable, backwards compatible default. Gnus likes to
support older Emacs releases.
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* Re: gnus-summary-save-in-rmail
2009-06-23 23:15 ` gnus-summary-save-in-rmail Glenn Morris
@ 2009-06-23 23:31 ` Jay Berkenbilt
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jay Berkenbilt @ 2009-06-23 23:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Does this make the gnus-summary-save-in-rmail function misnamed
>> since it seems to still write in BABYL format?
>
> I don't think so. It writes "the format used by rmail" rather than
> "babyl format". From the doc of gnus-output-to-rmail, which
> gnus-summary-save-in-rmail calls:
>
> In Emacs 22 this writes Babyl format; in Emacs 23 it writes mbox
> unless FILENAME exists and is Babyl format.
I missed this. Thanks. I had only tried appending to an existing file.
--Jay
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