From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35244 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: NNML => NNIMAP migration (and IMAP server recommendations. :) Date: 07 Mar 2001 14:35:28 +1100 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Message-ID: <873dcqmetb.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171019 1959 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: current,spool,server,mail,imap,almost Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 28451 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2001 03:37:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28443 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2001 03:36:59 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.danann.net (203.36.211.210) by gnus.org with SMTP; 7 Mar 2001 03:36:59 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.danann.net [203.36.211.210]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721402A888 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:36:27 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B66A782043; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:35:31 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ X-spies: explosion Project Monarch plutonium Janet Reno Bosnia CIA ECHELON Kennedy New World Order security AK-47 Noriega David John Oates arrangements cypherpunk User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.2 (Thalia) Original-Lines: 45 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35244 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35244 I am in the position of /almost/ always wanting to access my email on my local machine. /Almost/, though, is not quite always, which has been a pain on a couple of occasions recently. So, to address this, I would like to migrate from my current NNML-based mail setup to an IMAP based setup. This has the obvious advantage of being agnostic to the mail client used while retaining almost all the functionality of NNML. My current plan is to use Cyrus-IMAP as the server backend (on the local machine, with one user). Has anyone a recommendation against using this tool? The U-Washington IMAP server is not interesting (doesn't scale) and Courier is a little problematic in terms of accepting 8-bit bodies and so forth.[1] As part of this migration, I need to move my current mail collection into the server I chose. This /needs/ to preserve the flagged and unread articles in my current NNML spool. My spool currently contains ~ 100,000 messages, all of which I want to preserve in their current group and flagged/read/unread state during the transition. After using 'B c' (for testing) to spool 2,200 articles into IMAP, I am more than a little afraid of the time it will take to do this migration in Gnus. My estimate is ~ 48 hours, maybe more. So, any suggestions for dealing with that issue? Daniel Footnotes: [1] This is based on issues encountered at my place of work while they were testing Courier. I am happy to hear this dismissed. -- In the present-day reconstruction of physics, fragments of the Newtonian concepts are stubbornly retained. The result is to reduce modern physics to a sort of mystic chant over an unintelligible universe. -- Alfred North Whitehead, _Modes of Thought_