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#### FAQ 6-2

#### Question 6.2

How to archive interesting messages?

#### Answer

If you stumble across an interesting message, say in gnu.emacs.gnus and want to archive it there are several solutions. The first and easiest is to save it to a file by saying ‘`O f`’. However, wouldn’t it be much more convenient to have more direct access to the archived message from Gnus? If you say yes, put this snippet by Frank Haun <pille3003@fhaun.de> in `~/.gnus.el`:

    (defun my-archive-article (&optional n)
      "Copies one or more article(s) to a corresponding `nnml:' group, e.g.,
    `gnus.ding' goes to `nnml:1.gnus.ding'. And `nnml:List-gnus.ding' goes
    to `nnml:1.List-gnus-ding'.

    Use process marks or mark a region in the summary buffer to archive
    more then one article."
      (interactive "P")
      (let ((archive-name
             (format
              "nnml:1.%s"
              (if (featurep 'xemacs)
                  (replace-in-string gnus-newsgroup-name "^.*:" "")
                (replace-regexp-in-string "^.*:" "" gnus-newsgroup-name)))))
        (gnus-summary-copy-article n archive-name)))

You can now say ‘`M-x my-archive-article`’ in summary buffer to archive the article under the cursor in a nnml group. (Change nnml to your preferred back end)

Of course you can also make sure the cache is enabled by saying

    (setq gnus-use-cache t)

then you only have to set either the tick or the dormant mark for articles you want to keep, setting the read mark will remove them from cache.