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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.
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.
The number (an integer or
nilfor unlimited) of entries the registry will keep.