gnus: Document Groups
6.6.3 Document Groups
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‘nndoc’ is a cute little thing that will let you read a single file as a
newsgroup. Several files types are supported:
‘babyl’
The Babyl format.
‘mbox’
The standard Unix mbox file.
‘mmdf’
The MMDF mail box format.
‘news’
Several news articles appended into a file.
‘rnews’
The rnews batch transport format.
‘nsmail’
Netscape mail boxes.
‘mime-parts’
MIME multipart messages.
‘standard-digest’
The standard (RFC 1153) digest format.
‘mime-digest’
A MIME digest of messages.
‘lanl-gov-announce’
Announcement messages from LANL Gov Announce.
‘git’
‘git’ commit messages.
‘rfc822-forward’
A message forwarded according to RFC822.
‘outlook’
The Outlook mail box.
‘oe-dbx’
The Outlook Express dbx mail box.
‘exim-bounce’
A bounce message from the Exim MTA.
‘forward’
A message forwarded according to informal rules.
‘rfc934’
An RFC934-forwarded message.
‘mailman’
A mailman digest.
‘clari-briefs’
A digest of Clarinet brief news items.
‘slack-digest’
Non-standard digest format—matches most things, but does it badly.
‘mail-in-mail’
The last resort.
You can also use the special “file type” ‘guess’, which means that
‘nndoc’ will try to guess what file type it is looking at. ‘digest’
means that ‘nndoc’ should guess what digest type the file is.
‘nndoc’ will not try to change the file or insert any extra headers
into it—it will simply, like, let you use the file as the basis for a
group. And that’s it.
If you have some old archived articles that you want to insert into
your new & spiffy Gnus mail back end, ‘nndoc’ can probably help you with
that. Say you have an old ‘RMAIL’ file with mail that you now want to
split into your new ‘nnml’ groups. You look at that file using ‘nndoc’
(using the ‘G f’ command in the group buffer (
Foreign Groups)),
set the process mark on all the articles in the buffer (‘M P b’, for
instance), and then re-spool (‘B r’) using ‘nnml’. If all goes well,
all the mail in the ‘RMAIL’ file is now also stored in lots of ‘nnml’
directories, and you can delete that pesky ‘RMAIL’ file. If you have
the guts!
Virtual server variables:
‘nndoc-article-type’
This should be one of ‘mbox’, ‘babyl’, ‘digest’, ‘news’, ‘rnews’,
‘mmdf’, ‘forward’, ‘rfc934’, ‘rfc822-forward’, ‘mime-parts’,
‘standard-digest’, ‘slack-digest’, ‘clari-briefs’, ‘nsmail’,
‘outlook’, ‘oe-dbx’, ‘mailman’, and ‘mail-in-mail’ or ‘guess’.
‘nndoc-post-type’
This variable says whether Gnus is to consider the group a news
group or a mail group. There are two valid values: ‘mail’ (the
default) and ‘news’.
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