From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are advantages and disadvantages of RMAIL and mh-rmail ? Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 02:26:27 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87r4c9yenn.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380328213 13573 80.91.229.3 (28 Sep 2013 00:30:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:30:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 28 02:30:18 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 1VPiQL-0002si-K6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 02:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39064 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPiQL-00084z-38 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:30:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:URHHT5WFYzjXKLuPyacsG972aQM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201410 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.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@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93679 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Note that I don't want to use nnmbox for new incommings, > I'm happy with nnml, I just want a Gnus group populated > with the messages now in my RMAIL file, and then use > that group as an archive. (But it can be a separate > group. It doesn't have to be merged with the nnml inbox, > mail.misc, although that would be optimal.) OK, it seems the nnml inbox ended up in ~/Mail/mail/misc where the mails (one file for each) looks like this (on ls) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Now, in my old RMAIL mail file, I selected what I thought was one mail, and wrote it to (the file) 13. Then, in Gnus, I opened that mail, and it all worked seamlessly, except - the subject (in the Gnus summary) was wrong, it hadn't changed. Turned out, in the misc directory, there is an .overview file with one line per file (mail), that looks like 13 Subject A Name Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:52:01 +0200 (and then some more metadata) 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? -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573