Re: Can i use nnml as mail archive method?

[Deon Garrett]

"Tang  Yan" <tang.yan@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't know where to find help and the problem is so strange.
>
> I want to use nnml as mail archive method in gnus 5.10.6.
>
> And what i have done is as follows:
> ------------------------------------
> (setq gnus-message-archive-method
> '(nnml "archive"
> (nnml-directory "~/Mail/archive")
> (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active")
> (nnml-get-new-mail nil)))
>
> There are something like (nnfolder-directory %^^&&*). WHY!? I have
> never used `nnfolder' _and_ I have searched my `.gnus.el', there is no
> word `nnfolder'! I use nnml as my mail backend and archive method and I
> have deleted the old newsrc.old. That is impossible.

Don't bother with setting gnus-message-archive-method.  Assuming your
regular nnml backend is named "nnml", just set the archive group to
something like the following.

(setq gnus-message-archive-group
      (concat "nnml:sent-mail.sent-mail-" 
               (format-time-string "%Y-%m")))

If your main nnml directory is ~/mail/, then this will put your sent
mail into ~/mail/sent-mail/sent-mail-2004-08/ for example.

I think that nnfolder:archive must be hard-coded into Gnus somewhere.
I've never been able to get rid of it either.  You can safely ignore
it though.

- dg