From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39458 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jake Colman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How To Switch To Another IMAP Server? Date: 19 Oct 2001 10:45:29 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <76lmi7r8mu.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175159 27962 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:39:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 6640 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 14:46:35 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 14:46:35 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15uaui-00054t-00; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:46:20 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:45:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA13645 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:45:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 6622 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2001 14:46:04 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6617 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 14:46:04 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO newjersey.ppllc.com) (209.208.206.221) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 14:46:04 -0000 Original-Received: (from colman@localhost) by newjersey.ppllc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA04464; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:45:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: newjersey.ppllc.com: colman set sender to colman@ppllc.com using -f Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:23:06 +0200 (CEST)") Original-Lines: 64 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39458 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39458 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 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? -- Jake Colman Principia Partners LLC Phone: (201) 946-0300 Harborside Financial Center Fax: (201) 946-0320 902 Plaza Two E-mail: colman@ppllc.com Jersey City, NJ 07311 www.principiapartners.com