From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67328 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Questions about nnimap and cyrus->dovecot migration Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:57:34 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <878wu44f4x.fsf@dod.no> References: <87r67x48ow.fsf@dod.no> <8763p8puli.fsf@rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220770726 990 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2008 06:58:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 06:58:46 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15779@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 07 08:59:40 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KcEFF-0003Ta-05 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:59:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KcEDQ-0006vs-Ae; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KcEDO-0006vZ-TO for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KcEDM-0007GT-Bu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KcEDO-000118-00 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:57:42 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KcEDI-0004v2-Sv for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:57:36 +0000 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.246.109.getinternet.no ([84.208.246.109]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:57:36 +0000 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.246.109.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:57:36 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.246.109.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r10WhfHjXFBFyQC8tokH9tbr9V4= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67328 Archived-At: >>>>> Daniel Pittman : > Technically, imapsync was mentioned there, which I have used and found > to be uniformly excellent. It preserves all IMAP attributes by virtue > of working at the IMAP level, which is very effective, and handles > failure / interruption effectively. But it doesn't preserve the UIDs, which means that all the cached information in Gnus is useless, so that effectively it will be a new server as seen from Gnus. Hm... preserved flags or a new nnimap server, that's the question, I guess...? Also, I have some archive folders with more than 30k of messages. I'm unsure if that will take a very long time. And another also: I planned to install dovecot on the same old server cyrus has been running. But again: that's probably not worse than having dovecot run on a non-standard port for a while.