Re: Archiving entire nnmail group to a single file?

[Charles A. Roelli]

Hi Loris,

Set the variable `gnus-prompt-before-saving' to t, mark all the articles
you want to save (say, by typing `M P b' in the Group buffer), then hit
an output key like `O r' (for rmail format) or `o' (for the default
format) and type the name of the file you want the mail to be saved in.
If you're archiving a lot of mail this can take a while.

See here for more details:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Saving-Articles.html

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Charles


"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way of archiving an entire nnmail group to a single file?  I
>> have several groups, each corresponding to a year of mail, which I would
>> like to archive.  All the information I found relates to archiving
>> individual messages.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Loris
>
> I didn't get any replies to this, so I'll rephrase the question:
>
>   If I have an email account which I am accessing via IMAP, what
>   approaches could I take using Gnus to archiving some of the mail
>   folders to disk?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris