Re: Migrating to IMAP for real? As a native method, anyway.

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> > Does anybody have experience with using nnimap as the native server?
> 
> Use it all the time.
> 
> > And what would be the least painful way to migrate from me having:
> > 
> > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "foo"))
> > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
> >       '((nnimap "" (nnimap-address "bar"))
> >         (nnml "")))
> > 
> > to me having this:
> > 
> > (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "" (nnimap-address "bar")))
> > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
> >       '((nnml "")
> >         (nntp "" (nntp-address "foo"))))
> > 
> > I'd like to keep all marks, if possible.  But of course, I only want
> > to do this if there won't be tons of problems.
> 
> I moved my existing stuff, created a "tentative" new configuration,
> started it, populated the group list, put my old config back, and
> edited GROUPS.eld directly based on differences between it and the
> "tentative" setup. :-)
> 
> I don't know if this qualifies as less than tons of problems.

Most of them don't count as problems, because he is Kai.  

Remember to write a tutorial about migration.

ShengHuo