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[PATCH] Remove obsolete information on archiving mail from Gnus manual |
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Sat, 13 May 2023 21:28:37 +0200 |
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Hi,
my first test patch to practice things, pls comment if its format is not
what you expect. I hope Thunderbird does not mess up the format. FSF
copyright assignment is in process, but probably not yet completed.
Regardless of this being a test patch, it fixes a real but minor doc
issue in the Gnus manual: In 2012 Lars committed a change that removed
the previous "external marks" feature from various backends
(89b163db286d79b43fb5c9927fc622bbf7d2ef1a).
The Gnus manual still references these external marks in section
"Archiving Mails", I guess that reference just got overlooked. But
without external marks, archiving mails in Gnus is rather difficult (to
my knowledge), at least for the nnml backend. So I decided to rather
remove that section entirely.
Thanks
Jens
* doc/misc/gnus.texi: Remove obsolete information on archiving mail from
Gnus manual
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doc/misc/gnus.texi | 25 -------------------------
1 file changed, 25 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
index be7504c92bf..e08a5587962 100644
--- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
@@ -713,7 +713,6 @@ Top
Browsing the Web
-* Archiving Mail::
* Web Searches:: Creating groups from articles that
match a string.
* RSS:: Reading RDF site summary.
@@ -17247,7 +17246,6 @@ Browsing the Web
interfaces to these sources.
@menu
-* Archiving Mail::
* Web Searches:: Creating groups from articles that
match a string.
* RSS:: Reading RDF site summary.
@end menu
@@ -17264,29 +17262,6 @@ Browsing the Web
Unplugged}) handle downloading articles, and then you can read them at
leisure from your local disk. No more World Wide Wait for you.
-@node Archiving Mail
-@subsection Archiving Mail
-@cindex archiving mail
-@cindex backup of mail
-
-Some of the back ends, notably @code{nnml}, @code{nnfolder}, and
-@code{nnmaildir}, now actually store the article marks with each group.
-For these servers, archiving and restoring a group while preserving
-marks is fairly simple.
-
-(Preserving the group level and group parameters as well still
-requires ritual dancing and sacrifices to the @file{.newsrc.eld} deity
-though.)
-
-To archive an entire @code{nnml}, @code{nnfolder}, or @code{nnmaildir}
-server, take a recursive copy of the server directory. There is no need
-to shut down Gnus, so archiving may be invoked by @code{cron} or
-similar. You restore the data by restoring the directory tree, and
-adding a server definition pointing to that directory in Gnus. The
-@ref{Article Backlog}, @ref{Asynchronous Fetching} and other things
-might interfere with overwriting data, so you may want to shut down Gnus
-before you restore the data.
-
@node Web Searches
@subsection Web Searches
@cindex nnweb
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2.30.2
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Re: bug#63497: [PATCH] Remove obsolete information on archiving mail |
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Sun, 21 May 2023 09:26:07 +0300 |
> Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 23:51:58 +0200
> From: Jens Schmidt via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Next attempt - sorry for the delay, missed the update emails to this bug.
Thanks, installed on the emacs-29 branch, and closing the bug.
> Not sure whether removals count towards the 15 line limit but copyright
> assignment should be through now - could you please confirm, when you're
> at it?
Your assignment is on file now, yes.
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