nnfolder usage

nnfolder usage

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

I try to switch to Gnus, using the nnfolder backend for my emails.  
For far, I've used KMail.  I advised Gnus to split my old mails 
(imported via G-f) into several nnfolder files in ~/Mail.  So far 
no problem.

But how do I access these new folder files?  Also G-f?  Or is there
a way that Gnus searches the ~/Mail directory for folders by itself?
If I use G-f, Gnus calls these folders e.g.
  nndoc+/home/bronger/Mail/Sonstiges:Sonstiges
which is a little bit complicated.  Can I change this?
(G-r didn't work.)

Thank you!

Tschoe,
Torsten.

Re: nnfolder usage

[Kai Großjohann]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> I try to switch to Gnus, using the nnfolder backend for my emails.  
> For far, I've used KMail.  I advised Gnus to split my old mails 
> (imported via G-f) into several nnfolder files in ~/Mail.  So far 
> no problem.

Wrong.

> But how do I access these new folder files?

Never "manually" write to ~/Mail.  Gnus gets angry if you do that.
To create a "proper" folder, do this:

G m foo.bar RET nnfolder: RET           (the ":" is important)
    (now you have an empty group nnfolder:foo.bar)
G f /path/to/old/mbox/file/outside/of/~/Mail RET
    (enter this group)
M P a                                   (mark all articles)
B c nnfolder:foo.bar RET                (copy them to new group)

Repeat for all groups.
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Re: nnfolder usage

[Marc Girod]

>>>>> "TB" == Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

TB> But how do I access these new folder files?

I have "spools" in my ~/mail directory, out of which Gnus makes the
folders in my ~/Mail directory.

I feed the spools with procmail.

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