On Fri, Nov 17 2006, Geoff Kuenning wrote:

> I archive my mail in mbox format, and don't have a very good method
> for browsing those archives.  It seems to me that the nnmbox package
> ought to be able to let me browse them in a read-only mode.
[...]
> The interface I'd like is something like:
>
>     M-x nnmbox-visit-file RET ~/mail/archives/foobar RET
>
> at which point I would be in a friendly GNUS interface

s/GNUS/Gnus/

> with a summary buffer and the ability to wash articles.  I don't
> mind hacking up a bit of elisp to provide scaffolding to support
> this idea.

Creating an ephemeral group:

`G M some-name RET nndoc RET /path/to/mbox RET'

(gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group
 "some-name" '(nndoc "/path/to/mbox" (nndoc-article-type mbox)))

A foreign group `gnus-group-make-doc-group':

`C-u G f /path/to/mbox m'

Bye, Reiner.
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