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nnfolder
is a back end for storing each mail group in a separate
file. Each file is in the standard Un*x mbox format. nnfolder
will add extra headers to keep track of article numbers and arrival
dates.
When the marks file is used (which it is by default), nnfolder
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 nnfolder
server) and have all your marks be preserved.
Marks for a group is usually stored in a file named as the mbox file
with .mrk
concatenated to it (but see
nnfolder-marks-file-suffix
) within the nnfolder
directory.
Individual nnfolder
groups are also possible to backup, use
G m to restore the group (after restoring the backup into the
nnfolder
directory).
Virtual server settings:
nnfolder-directory
nnfolder
mail boxes will be stored under this directory.
The default is the value of message-directory
(whose default is
`~/Mail')
nnfolder-active-file
nnfolder-newsgroups-file
nnfolder-get-new-mail
nil
, nnfolder
will read incoming mail. The default
is t
nnfolder-save-buffer-hook
nnfolder
buffers. If you
wish to switch this off, you could say something like the following in
your `.emacs' file:
(defun turn-off-backup () (set (make-local-variable 'backup-inhibited) t)) (add-hook 'nnfolder-save-buffer-hook 'turn-off-backup) |
nnfolder-delete-mail-hook
nnfolder-nov-is-evil
nil
, this back end will ignore any NOV files. The
default is nil
.
nnfolder-nov-file-suffix
nnfolder-nov-directory
nil
, nnfolder-directory
is used.
nnfolder-marks-is-evil
nil
, this back end will ignore any MARKS files. The
default is nil
.
nnfolder-marks-file-suffix
nnfolder-marks-directory
nil
, nnfolder-directory
is used.
If you have lots of nnfolder
-like files you'd like to read with
nnfolder
, you can use the M-x nnfolder-generate-active-file
command to make nnfolder
aware of all likely files in
nnfolder-directory
. This only works if you use long file names,
though.
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