From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47581 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: importing an old gnus dir hierarchy Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 08:35:32 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <84of91u917.fsf@crybaby.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036659225 4021 80.91.224.249 (7 Nov 2002 08:53:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:53:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189iQ3-00012Z-00 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 09:53:44 +0100 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 189iQm-0003fe-00; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 02:54:28 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 07 Nov 2002 02:55:08 -0600 (CST) 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 CAA13900 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 02:54:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 16003 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2002 08:53:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15998 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2002 08:53:40 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 7 Nov 2002 08:53:39 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 189iXN-0002gf-00 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:01:17 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: crybaby.uni-duisburg.de Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1036659677 10330 134.91.30.116 (7 Nov 2002 09:01:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Nov 2002 09:01:17 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lB5bZtjbnEHKUxuoYeOVvVWgRAw= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47581 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47581 Bill White 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 -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)