Re: How To Switch To Another IMAP Server?

[Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>]

Simon,

My SA used Microsoft's ExMerge wizard for moving the mailboxes from truman
to hamilton.  The wizard provides no explicit options for copying or not
copying the marks so I supposed it should have just worked.  The problem is
that, although all my messages were copied, gnus is not showing me which ones
were ticked.

Any idea what I should do now?  How can I get them ticked?  I still have
access to the old truman mailbox with the message and tick intact.

Thanks!

...Jake


>>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

    SJ> On 19 Oct 2001, Jake Colman wrote:
    >> Simon,
    >>
    >> Are the gnus tick marks actually stored on the IMAP server?  I thought
    >> they were an artificial invention of gnus.  I cannot imagine how they
    >> night have copied things over such that all the email arrived but not
    >> the associated marks.

    SJ> Everything is stored on the IMAP server, and copying the articles
    SJ> without the marks isn't good.  If you have access to both servers
    SJ> still, maybe you can copy everything again with marks.

    >>
    >> ...Jake
    >>
    >>
    >> >>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
    >>
    SJ> On 18 Oct 2001, Jake Colman wrote:
    >> >> My office has decided to replace our current IMAP Server, truman,
    >> >> with a new IMAP Server, hamilton.  For the next few days, both
    >> >> servers will be available to me but next week truman will be taken
    >> >> off-line.  The SA's have copied all my mailboxes and folders from
    >> >> truman to hamilton and all new email will be sent to hamilton.
    >> >>
    >> >> So how do I tell gnus that I now want it to access hamilton instead
    >> >> of truman?  What I have done in the meantime is to subscribe to new
    >> >> nnimap mailboxes on hamilton giving them the same name as they had
    >> >> on truman.  This, of course, gave me two entries for each mailbox,
    >> >> one on each server.  I have killed (C-k) many of the truman copies
    >> >> of these mailboxes.
    >> >>
    >> >> Questions:
    >> >>
    >> >> 1) Was there a better way to have done this?
    >>
    SJ> Can't think of one.
    >>
    >> >> 2) Some of the truman mailboxes have ticked articles marked with an
    >> >> exclamation point.  How do I get the hamilton copies of the
    >> >> messages ticked the same way.
    >>
    SJ> How was the messages copied between the servers?  The flags should be
    SJ> copied as well.
    >>
    >> >> 3) I still have references to the killed truman mailboxes in my
    >> >>    .newsrc.eld.
    >> >> Is this a problem?
    >>
    SJ> Shouldn't be, but you can probably remove them by running some
    SJ> command to kill "zombies" or "killed" groups, or something like that.
    >>
    >> >> 4) I currently have entries for both truman and hamilton in my
    >> >> gnus-secondary-select-methods.  When I start gnus, it logs on to
    >> >> both servers, prompting me for passwords for both.  Great!  If I
    >> >> remove truman, I crap out with a lisp error.  Before I delve into
    >> >> this and give you a better report, is there something obvious I
    >> >> missed that would cause a problem, perhaps one of the items
    >> >> mentioned above?
    >>
    SJ> No, it is a bug.  Can you post the entire backtrace?
    >>
    >>

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