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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: moving from nnml to nnimap
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:51:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp1c4c27.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m38vwgo133.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:28:00 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> I don't know of one.  You basically need to do (open group with C-u to
>> see all articles, mark all articles, copy to 
>> (gnus-newsgroup-name =~ s/nnml/nnimap/) ) 300 times.  It can be
>> automated I guess, but no one has needed the automation badly enough.
>> If you want I can write a function to do it.

LMI> It sounds like a good idea.  The ability to, say, slurp down all
LMI> groups/messages from IMAP server A to move them to server B sounds
LMI> useful, too, so this should be a quite general command.  Perhaps in the
LMI> server buffer?  "Copy (or move?) all messages from server Foo to server
LMI> Bar?"

It's extremely likely to get interrupted, though.  So really what you
want is something like imapsync but for Gnus.  Perhaps that's better
left as a Cloudy Gnus TODO item.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-15 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-14 19:55 Randal L. Schwartz
2011-03-14 20:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15  1:02   ` Dave Goldberg
2011-03-15 15:28   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-15 15:51     ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-03-15 15:58       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-15 16:07         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15 16:13           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17  8:13     ` Reiner Steib
2011-03-17 14:46       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 19:07       ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-03-17 19:15         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 20:17           ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-03-17 20:19             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 22:12               ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-03-29 19:12                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-16  8:38   ` Steinar Bang
2011-03-16 13:55     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17  8:12       ` Steinar Bang
2011-03-17 10:58         ` Ted Zlatanov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-24  0:59 Moving " Jinhyok Heo
2003-11-24  1:48 ` Daniel Pittman
2003-11-24 16:24   ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-11-25 17:01     ` Ken Raeburn

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