From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35259 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: NNML => NNIMAP migration (and IMAP server recommendations. :) Date: 08 Mar 2001 13:09:59 +1100 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Message-ID: <87elw96mfc.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: <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 1035171031 2021 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:30:31 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: gnus,mutt,daniel Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 11483 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2001 02:11:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11478 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2001 02:11:10 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.danann.net (203.36.211.210) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Mar 2001 02:11:10 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.danann.net [203.36.211.210]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F1BD2A888 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:10:39 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 18B0982039; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:10:00 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (NAGY Andras's message of "07 Mar 2001 14:14:00 +0100") X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ X-spies: DES Mena Ft. Meade SCUD missile Roswell cryptographic South Africa Vickie Weaver encryption security supercomputer Paula Corbin Jones Treasury New World Order NSA User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.2 (Thalia) Original-Lines: 34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35259 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35259 On 07 Mar 2001, NAGY Andras wrote: > On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, at 04:35, Daniel Pittman > wrote: > >> 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? > > You could use Mutt (the version that supports IMAP) to do mass > transfers. It's MH backend can deal with Gnus' nnml format, and has > the best performance (compared to Gnus and Pine) when it comes to > _really_ large mailboxes. > > But eeek, Gnus stores flags in newsrc, and Mutt expects them in the > message's Status: header. Which makes it unsuitable for you, I think. > :( True. My current plan is to write some Lisp to implement 'gnus-server-migrate-group(s)' that will do the work in Lisp without the fluff that entering and leaving a summary buffer has. With luck, fingers crossed, I can manage this, at least on a per-group basis. If that fails, though, I might have a look at the Mutt thing, together with a hack to fill out a header on each message containing the flags... Daniel -- You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi