From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wgreenhouse-sGOZH3hwPm2sTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org (W. Greenhouse) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are advantages and disadvantages of RMAIL and mh-rmail ? Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 02:12:06 +0000 Message-ID: <87fvsp8zk9.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> References: <5ili3zuuj0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <878uyoua8b.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <8761tr9ofa.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87ob7iq5sf.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87hada9h6z.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87r4c9yenn.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380334360 9661 80.91.229.3 (28 Sep 2013 02:12:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 02:12:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sat Sep 28 04:12:43 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPk1S-0007wH-MX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:12:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39297 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPk1S-0005wd-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:12:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPk1C-0005wV-FC for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:12:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPk16-0000xw-KW for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34567) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPk16-0000xq-D2 for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPk15-0007W3-Ed for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:12:19 +0200 Original-Received: from spftor3.privacyfoundation.ch ([62.220.135.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:12:19 +0200 Original-Received: from wgreenhouse by spftor3.privacyfoundation.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:12:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-dbVV3NMTNubNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: spftor3.privacyfoundation.ch X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ydSM1QY0IbtvqKtxTMvYdlElnSc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93680 Archived-At: Hi Emanuel, Emanuel Berg writes: [...] > But instead of line breaks, it seems - sometimes > whitespace, and sometimes a tab, and sometimes both. > > So, the Gnus summary reads from the .overview file, and > only when you select a message you get it from the > actual file (e.g., 13). > > Now, I guess this could be solved by a parser that reads > the RMAIL file, and for each entry, creates a numbered > mail file, *and* append to the .overview file the number > and the headers? Fortunately there is no need to do all this work manually, and the parser is already written. :) If you have old mail in an RMAIL file, you can open the entire RMAIL file in Gnus with G f (`gnus-group-make-doc-group') and "respool" it with M P a (mark all) and B r (respool). This will make your nnml setup re-process all of that mail as if it were brand new from the server, and it will be automatically incorporated and the .overview file regenerated. This process is synchronous, so if you have a great deal of mail stored in the RMAIL file, you may want to go make a coffee, or possibly a sandwich and a coffee. :) -- Regards, WGG