From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60788 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What's the best backend? Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:06:18 +1000 Message-ID: <87d5odq96t.fsf@rimspace.net> References: <87slxaz6ao.fsf@microblue.com> <87d5oeuwgu.fsf@rimspace.net> <87r7cthwap.fsf@microblue.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124269450 23221 80.91.229.2 (17 Aug 2005 09:04:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9320=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 17 11:04:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5JpH-00070X-R2 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:03:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E5JpH-0007dJ-00 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:03:11 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E5Jp4-0007dB-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:02:58 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E5Jp1-0004T9-QY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:02:55 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1E5Isw-0005yS-00 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:02:54 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E5JoW-0006ly-Eh for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:02:24 +0200 Original-Received: from 203-217-29-45.perm.iinet.net.au ([203.217.29.45]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:02:24 +0200 Original-Received: from daniel by 203-217-29-45.perm.iinet.net.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:02:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-217-29-45.perm.iinet.net.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.5-b21 (corn, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VFcEFfygh4VRgXN/mR1CWuV+IGQ= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60788 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60788 JackPhil writes: > Daniel Pittman writes: > >> Your question isn't very clear, presumably because English is not your >> primary language. I hope this answers it. > > I'm sorry. Yes, English is not my primary language. Please, don't apologise. I was concerned that I had not understood your question, rather than trying to tell you that you should adapt to my poor language skills. :) >> nnml is probably the best choice for storing email in Gnus, by default. >> It is the best tested back-end for local storage, and unless you have a >> specific reason to use another format, is the best choice. >> >> If you want to store your email on the server, nnimap is the best >> choice. This allows good remote mail access. > > and how to change the back end, i.e from nnfolder to nnml, without > lost any mail? Slowly. :) The only way that I know of is: * add both backends to your configuration * enter each source group * select all articles * copy them to the other backend (with B c in summary buffer) I did this for my nnml to nnimap migration recently. Not fun at all, but it did work, and preserved all my marks. Daniel