From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/34893 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ShengHuo ZHU Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Migrating to IMAP for real? As a native method, anyway. Date: 21 Feb 2001 15:38:54 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <5blmqz22ld.fsf@avocet.cs.rochester.edu> References: <87wvajbx2f.fsf@mallet-assembly.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170731 32628 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:25:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:25:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B0DD049E for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:39:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAC26845; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:39:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:38:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29019 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:38:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from gate.cs.rochester.edu (gate.cs.rochester.edu [192.5.53.207]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F019FD049E for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:38:54 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from avocet.cs.rochester.edu (avocet.cs.rochester.edu [192.5.53.22]) by gate.cs.rochester.edu (8.9.1b+Sun/U) with ESMTP id PAA10497 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:38:54 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from zsh@localhost) by avocet.cs.rochester.edu (8.9.1b+Sun/Q++) id PAA27735; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:38:54 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: ZSH X-Face: 'IF:e51ib'Qbl^(}l^&4-J`'P!@[4~O|&k#:@Gld#b/]oMq&`&FVY._3+b`mzp~Jeve~/#/ ERD!OTe<86UhyN=l`mrPY)M7_}`Ktt\K+58Z!hu7>qU,i.N7TotU[FYE(f1;}`g2xj!u*l`^&=Q!g{ *q|ddto|nkt"$r,K$[)"|6,elPH= GJ6Q In-Reply-To: <87wvajbx2f.fsf@mallet-assembly.org> (Michael Alan Dorman's message of "21 Feb 2001 12:28:08 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 36 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34893 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34893 Michael Alan Dorman 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