Re: saving/archiving received messages (esp. emails)

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Jun 10 2004, Sven Hartenstein wrote:

> (Question 1) how can I / do I want to save received mail in the same
> file? More precisely: how do I do it without hitting B m and selecting
> the nnfolder by hand? Am I right, that I want to "move", not "save" the
> articles? Is this a bad idea and I should rather save my messages in a
> different way for any reason? How do real gnusists do it? :-)

(info "(gnus)Fancy Mail Splitting")

> (Question 2) I would like to automatically delete all attachments from
> articles both for sent ones and for those that I save/move as mentioned
> above. How can I achieve this?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Archived Messages") ]
| `gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments'
|      If `nil', attach files as normal parts in Gcc copies; if a regexp
|      and matches the Gcc group name, attach files as external parts; if
|      it is `all', attach local files as external parts; if it is other
|      non-`nil', the behavior is the same as `all', but it may be
|      changed in the future.
`----

> (Question 3) If I have (setq gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups ".*") in my
> ~/.gnus, does this mean that archive groups and drafts will expire as
> well? How should I change that? I would like archive and draft groups to
> never expire, and all others to expire without having to change my
> ~/.gnus whenever I have new groups.

Find a regexp that doesn't match archive and drafts groups. ;-)

Bye, Reiner.
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