From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54917 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Moving from nnml to nnimap... Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:24:08 -0500 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nisl9envb.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> References: <87he0ur0yg.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069691148 10758 80.91.224.253 (24 Nov 2003 16:25:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jinhyok Heo , ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3457@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 24 17:25:43 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOJWw-0004Jk-00 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:25:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AOJWq-00045Q-00; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:25:36 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AOJWl-00045L-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:25:31 -0600 Original-Received: from clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (clifford.bwh.harvard.edu [134.174.9.41]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5A43A0044 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:25:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (lockgroove [134.174.9.133]) by clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.0) with ESMTP id hAOGOe711311; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:24:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from tzz@localhost) by lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.0) id hAOGO9r03482; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:24:09 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Daniel Pittman X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Pittman , Jinhyok Heo , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87he0ur0yg.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> (Daniel Pittman's message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:48:23 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54917 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54917 On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, daniel@rimspace.net wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Jinhyok Heo wrote: >> First of all, is there an easy way to move an existing nnml group >> to nnimap one? I did try to use "B c" to move one to a new nnimap >> group, but it was too slow for an large or huge group. > > I never found one, although you could possibly write a routine if > you knew lisp well enough... I think it's easiest to condense the nnml group into a single mbox file and import that into the IMAP server if you have shell access to it, and it allows mbox storage. I've done that with UW IMAP, and it works nicely. Unfortunately, marks will be lost - if you need those, and you have some choice in the IMAP server, use one that allows Maildir storage. It will be much faster to move articles into the IMAP server then. > I strongly recommend the Cyrus IMAP server. While it is much harder > to get up and running than the competition, the performance is great > and it's extremely powerful and useful. I'm also evaluating dovecot for Gnus, I'll let the group know how performance compares between dovecot and Cyrus, when I have a few months of experience. UW IMAP performance with Gnus is pretty bad. The only reason I'm using UW IMAP is because that's what my ISP provides. It is occasionally convenient to access folders as mbox files. that's the only benefit to UW IMAP. Ted