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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:

> Soren Dayton <dayton@overx.com> writes:
>=20
> > I have about 4 years worth of mail in nnml and I would like to move=
 it
> > to nnimap, keeping the flags (!, *, R, etc), if possible.  is there
> > a good way to do it?
>=20
> For each group nnml:foo do
>     create group nnimap:foo
>     enter group nnml:foo using `C-u RET', listing all messages
>     mark all articles using `M P a'
>     move all messages to nnimap:foo using `B m'
> end for
=20
[snip]

> You could write little Lisp snippets to automate these tasks.

Yup.  Not actually that hard.  One more question:

what do people do about the change is group hierarchy seperator?
Exchange uses "foo/bar" where gnus uses "foo.bar".  I just have to do
the translation myself because Exchange is more promiscuous about
names than gnus?  Is that the solution?

I see that gnus doesn't support making groups with "/" in the names.
What have people done here?

Soren