Re: How To Switch To Another IMAP Server?

[Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>]

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.

...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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