Gnus provides a few different methods for storing the mail and news you
send. The default method is to use the archive virtual server to
store the messages. If you want to disable this completely, the
gnus-message-archive-group
variable should be nil
, which
is the default.
gnus-message-archive-method
says what virtual server Gnus is to
use to store sent messages. The default is:
(nnfolder "archive" (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active") (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil) (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t))
You can, however, use any mail select method (nnml
,
nnmbox
, etc.). nnfolder
is a quite likable select method
for doing this sort of thing, though. If you don't like the default
directory chosen, you could say something like:
(setq gnus-message-archive-method '(nnfolder "archive" (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t) (nnfolder-active-file "~/News/sent-mail/active") (nnfolder-directory "~/News/sent-mail/")))
Gnus will insert Gcc
headers in all outgoing messages that point
to one or more group(s) on that server. Which group to use is
determined by the gnus-message-archive-group
variable.
This variable can be used to do the following:
gnus-message-archive-method
, but in the select method specified
by the group name, instead. Suppose gnus-message-archive-method
has the default value shown above. Then setting
gnus-message-archive-group
to "foo"
means that outgoing
messages are stored in `nnfolder+archive:foo', but if you use the
value "nnml:foo"
, then outgoing messages will be stored in
`nnml:foo'.
nil
No message archiving will take place. This is the default.
Let's illustrate:
Just saving to a single group called `MisK':
(setq gnus-message-archive-group "MisK")
Saving to two groups, `MisK' and `safe':
(setq gnus-message-archive-group '("MisK" "safe"))
Save to different groups based on what group you are in:
(setq gnus-message-archive-group '(("^alt" "sent-to-alt") ("mail" "sent-to-mail") (".*" "sent-to-misc")))
More complex stuff:
(setq gnus-message-archive-group '((if (message-news-p) "misc-news" "misc-mail")))
How about storing all news messages in one file, but storing all mail messages in one file per month:
(setq gnus-message-archive-group '((if (message-news-p) "misc-news" (concat "mail." (format-time-string "%Y-%m")))))
Now, when you send a message off, it will be stored in the appropriate
group. (If you want to disable storing for just one particular message,
you can just remove the Gcc
header that has been inserted.) The
archive group will appear in the group buffer the next time you start
Gnus, or the next time you press F in the group buffer. You can
enter it and read the articles in it just like you'd read any other
group. If the group gets really big and annoying, you can simply rename
if (using G r in the group buffer) to something
nice---`misc-mail-september-1995', or whatever. New messages will
continue to be stored in the old (now empty) group.
That's the default method of archiving sent messages. Gnus offers a
different way for the people who don't like the default method. In that
case you should set gnus-message-archive-group
to nil
;
this will disable archiving.
gnus-outgoing-message-group
gnus-message-archive-group
,
but the latter is the preferred method.
gnus-gcc-mark-as-read
nil
, automatically mark Gcc
articles as read.
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