From dd3e4e14fdc516c7c0f3668601b0b0703b304251 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Schmidt Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 23:46:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Remove obsolete information from Gnus manual The Gnus manual was still referencing long-removed external marks in section "Archiving Mails". Without external marks, that section is almost pointless, so remove it completely. * doc/misc/gnus.texi (Archiving Mail): Remove section. (Top, Browsing the Web): Remove references to "Archiving Mail". (Bug#63497) --- doc/misc/gnus.texi | 25 ------------------------- 1 file changed, 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi index f0d3c75d055..d77d4be1bee 100644 --- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi +++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi @@ -713,7 +713,6 @@ Choosing a Mail Back End Browsing the Web -* Archiving Mail:: * Web Searches:: Creating groups from articles that match a string. * RSS:: Reading RDF site summary. @@ -17244,7 +17243,6 @@ Gnus has been getting a bit of a collection of back ends for providing interfaces to these sources. @menu -* Archiving Mail:: * Web Searches:: Creating groups from articles that match a string. * RSS:: Reading RDF site summary. @end menu @@ -17261,29 +17259,6 @@ cases, it makes a lot of sense to let the Gnus Agent (@pxref{Gnus Unplugged}) handle downloading articles, and then you can read them at leisure from your local disk. No more World Wide Wait for you. -@node Archiving Mail -@subsection Archiving Mail -@cindex archiving mail -@cindex backup of mail - -Some of the back ends, notably @code{nnml}, @code{nnfolder}, and -@code{nnmaildir}, now actually store the article marks with each group. -For these servers, archiving and restoring a group while preserving -marks is fairly simple. - -(Preserving the group level and group parameters as well still -requires ritual dancing and sacrifices to the @file{.newsrc.eld} deity -though.) - -To archive an entire @code{nnml}, @code{nnfolder}, or @code{nnmaildir} -server, take a recursive copy of the server directory. There is no need -to shut down Gnus, so archiving may be invoked by @code{cron} or -similar. You restore the data by restoring the directory tree, and -adding a server definition pointing to that directory in Gnus. The -@ref{Article Backlog}, @ref{Asynchronous Fetching} and other things -might interfere with overwriting data, so you may want to shut down Gnus -before you restore the data. - @node Web Searches @subsection Web Searches @cindex nnweb -- 2.39.2