Re: importing an old gnus dir hierarchy

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:

> I have an old gnus nnml directory hierarchy that I'd like to "import"
> into my current gnus.

So the old hierarchy already has .overview files?  Then it should be
as easy as creating a new nnml server which looks at the right
directory.  I think you need to frob not only nnml-directory but also
nnml-active-file for the server:

(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nnml "billw"
               (nnml-directory "/billw/Mail-work")
               (nnml-active-file "/billw/Mail-work/active")))

This will give you nnml+billw:archive.2001-09 and so on.  Please
check where your active file is.  Maybe if you don't have it, you can
use M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases RET to create it.

Hm.  Coming to think of it, I think you can just use M-x
nnml-generate-nov-databases RET (or `g' on the server from the server
buffer) to generate the .overview files, as well.  So just the
articles are important.

kai
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