gnus: Gnus Registry Setup
9.18.1 Gnus Registry Setup
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Fortunately, setting up the Gnus registry is pretty easy:
(setq gnus-registry-max-entries 2500)
(gnus-registry-initialize)
This adds registry saves to Gnus newsrc saves (which happen on exit
and when you press ‘s’ from the ‘*Group*’ buffer. It also adds registry
calls to article actions in Gnus (copy, move, etc.) so it’s not easy to
undo the initialization. See ‘gnus-registry-initialize’ for the gory
details.
Here are other settings used by the author of the registry
(understand what they do before you copy them blindly).
(setq
gnus-registry-split-strategy 'majority
gnus-registry-ignored-groups '(("nntp" t)
("nnrss" t)
("spam" t)
("train" t))
gnus-registry-max-entries 500000
;; this is the default
gnus-registry-track-extra '(sender subject))
They say: keep a lot of messages around, track messages by sender and
subject (not just parent Message-ID), and when the registry splits
incoming mail, use a majority rule to decide where messages should go if
there’s more than one possibility. In addition, the registry should
ignore messages in groups that match “nntp”, “nnrss”, “spam”, or
“train.”
You are doubtless impressed by all this, but you ask: “I am a Gnus
user, I customize to live. Give me more.” Here you go, these are the
general settings.
-- Variable: gnus-registry-unfollowed-groups
The groups that will not be followed by
‘gnus-registry-split-fancy-with-parent’. They will still be
remembered by the registry. This is a list of regular expressions.
By default any group name that ends with “delayed”, “drafts”,
“queue”, or “INBOX”, belongs to the nnmairix backend, or contains
the word “archive” is not followed.
-- Variable: gnus-registry-max-entries
The number (an integer or ‘nil’ for unlimited) of entries the
registry will keep. If the registry has reached or exceeded this
size, it will reject insertion of new entries.
-- Variable: gnus-registry-prune-factor
This option (a float between 0 and 1) controls how much the
registry is cut back during pruning. In order to prevent constant
pruning, the registry will be pruned back to less than
‘gnus-registry-max-entries’. This option controls exactly how much
less: the target is calculated as the maximum number of entries
minus the maximum number times this factor. The default is 0.1:
i.e., if your registry is limited to 50000 entries, pruning will
try to cut back to 45000 entries. Entries with keys marked as
precious will not be pruned.
-- Variable: gnus-registry-default-sort-function
This option specifies how registry entries are sorted during
pruning. If a function is given, it should sort least valuable
entries first, as pruning starts from the beginning of the list.
The default value is ‘gnus-registry-sort-by-creation-time’, which
proposes the oldest entries for pruning. Set to nil to perform no
sorting, which will speed up the pruning process.
-- Variable: gnus-registry-cache-file
The file where the registry will be stored between Gnus sessions.
By default the file name is ‘.gnus.registry.eieio’ in the same
directory as your ‘.newsrc.eld’.
Info Catalog
gnus: The Gnus Registry
gnus: Registry Article Refer Method