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The nnml spool mail format isn't compatible with any other known format. It should be used with some caution.
If you use this back end, Gnus will split all incoming mail into files,
one file for each mail, and put the articles into the corresponding
directories under the directory specified by the nnml-directory
variable. The default value is `~/Mail/'.
You do not have to create any directories beforehand; Gnus will take care of all that.
If you have a strict limit as to how many files you are allowed to store in your account, you should not use this back end. As each mail gets its own file, you might very well occupy thousands of inodes within a few weeks. If this is no problem for you, and it isn't a problem for you having your friendly systems administrator walking around, madly, shouting "Who is eating all my inodes?! Who? Who!?!", then you should know that this is probably the fastest format to use. You do not have to trudge through a big mbox file just to read your new mail.
nnml
is probably the slowest back end when it comes to article
splitting. It has to create lots of files, and it also generates
NOV databases for the incoming mails. This makes it possibly the
fastest back end when it comes to reading mail.
When the marks file is used (which it is by default), nnml
servers have the property that you may backup them using tar
or
similar, and later be able to restore them into Gnus (by adding the
proper nnml
server) and have all your marks be preserved. Marks
for a group is usually stored in the .marks
file (but see
nnml-marks-file-name
) within each nnml
group's directory.
Individual nnml
groups are also possible to backup, use G m
to restore the group (after restoring the backup into the nnml
directory).
If for some reason you believe your `.marks' files are screwed up, you can just delete them all. Gnus will then correctly regenerate them next time it starts.
Virtual server settings:
nnml-directory
nnml
directories will be placed under this directory. The
default is the value of message-directory
(whose default value
is `~/Mail').
nnml-active-file
nnml
server. The default is
`~/Mail/active'.
nnml-newsgroups-file
nnml
group descriptions file. See section 10.7.9.2 Newsgroups File Format. The default is `~/Mail/newsgroups'.
nnml-get-new-mail
nil
, nnml
will read incoming mail. The default is
t
.
nnml-nov-is-evil
nil
, this back end will ignore any NOV files. The
default is nil
.
nnml-nov-file-name
nnml-prepare-save-mail-hook
nnml-marks-is-evil
nil
, this back end will ignore any MARKS files. The
default is nil
.
nnml-marks-file-name
nnml-use-compressed-files
nil
, nnml
will allow using compressed message
files.
If your nnml
groups and NOV files get totally out of whack,
you can do a complete update by typing M-x
nnml-generate-nov-databases. This command will trawl through the
entire nnml
hierarchy, looking at each and every article, so it
might take a while to complete. A better interface to this
functionality can be found in the server buffer (see section 6.1.2 Server Commands).
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