Re: How to get rid of many nnml mail directories en-masse

[Glyn Millington]

Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:

 Over the years I've accumulated many many nnml directories that are no
 longer in use.

 I know how to delete individual mail directories thru gnus
 interface... but how can I delete dozens of them.

 Something like just delete them and then excise them from .newsrc.eld?

 Is there some way better than that... but doesn't take all day to do?

Hi Harry, 

your question intrigued me because I had a few dozen such groups here. In
the absence of an answer from Those Who Know, this is how I did it.

1. In the group buffer hit 'L', to reveal all those unsubscribed groups.

2. Mark the UNwanted groups for processing and change them all to level 7
with S l

3. M-x gnus-group-kill-level and Gnus asks which level, tell it 7

that seems to have done the trick for me

hope that helps


Glyn


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How to get rid of many nnml mail directories en-masse

[Harry Putnam]

Over the years I've accumulated many many nnml directories that are no
longer in use.

I know how to delete individual mail directories thru gnus
interface... but how can I delete dozens of them.

Something like just delete them and then excise them from .newsrc.eld?

Is there some way better than that... but doesn't take all day to do?

find ~/Mail/ -type d |wc -l shows 579 directories.  I'm guessing
something like 250-290 are actually in use or at least holding
something I want to keep.  So, I'm talking about something in the
neighborhood of 300 mail directories that need to bite the dust.


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