From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Streamlining first-time Gnus usage
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:49:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbed3yhc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yb0mxo6jcow.fsf@dod.no>
On Thu, Dec 16 2010, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>:
>
>> Even now, I have a heck of a time importing emails. While I was
>> screwing up moving my gnus installation into a different directory I
>> got a spurious Mail/misc directory with a single email in it, and
>> there is apparently no command to take that email and put it into my
>> gnus system.
>
> Did you try open that single email as an nnmbox folder? After that, you
> could `B m' it to a different folder.
>
> I've done most of my migration using `B m'.
>
> I started out with RMAIL as (almost) the first email client I used on a
> regular basis (there was a DECNet and an EARN client I had, but they
> were so inconvenient to get at, they never got out of the
> experimentation stage).
>
> I quickly moved on to VM, since that let me have mbox folders that other
> email tools could read.
>
> When the MIME talk started in 1993 or thereabouts, there were no MIME
> plans for VM. But there were an least one non-emacs MH client that
> supported MIME. So I moved to having my folders as MH and using mh-e
> and mew, until I finally made the decision to go all gnus (in 1995 or
> 1996 or thenabouts).
>
> Then I used nnmh and nntp until the nnmh folders were transformed into
> nnml. And then nnimap hit the stage and I used a mix of nnml and nnimap
> and nntp. And a mix of server side and client side filtering.
>
> In 2001 I finally dropped nnml, and `B m'-d all the nnml email into
> mailboxes on my private IMAP server (a cyrus server... that I had to
> move into twice, because I had to patch cyrus to not strip the 8th bit
> and ruin all of my just-send-8 emails from the nineties).
>
> Since then I've run a combination of nntp and nnimap. Sometimes two
> nnimap servers, sometimes just my personal nnimap server.
>
> When migrating servers I have talked to both servers and `B m'-d the
> stuff I have cared to keep.
>
> But I digress...
Man, that was a scary story. Are you trying to tell us kids that we
don't have it so bad? :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-17 2:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 128+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-13 16:10 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 16:15 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-13 16:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 16:44 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-13 16:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 17:33 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-13 19:07 ` Getting rid of the primary/secondary distinction (was: Streamlining first-time Gnus usage) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-14 10:06 ` Getting rid of the primary/secondary distinction Julien Danjou
2010-12-15 19:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 15:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 19:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 20:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 21:17 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2010-12-15 21:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 21:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 21:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 18:08 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-15 20:29 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-15 20:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 21:05 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-15 21:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 13:21 ` Andy Moreton
2010-12-16 16:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-13 19:55 ` Streamlining first-time Gnus usage Dan Christensen
2010-12-13 20:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 15:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-13 20:23 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-13 20:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 20:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-13 17:02 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-13 17:05 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-13 17:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 17:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 19:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 15:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 20:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 15:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-13 19:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-13 20:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-14 8:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-14 9:54 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-14 10:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-14 10:34 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-14 11:07 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2010-12-15 15:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 20:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 20:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 21:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 16:22 ` Poll time: Topics should default to on or off? (was: Streamlining first-time Gnus usage) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-16 16:28 ` Poll time: Topics should default to on or off? Julien Danjou
2010-12-16 17:30 ` David Edmondson
2010-12-16 19:46 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-16 20:12 ` Richard Riley
2010-12-16 20:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-16 20:53 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-16 21:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-16 21:20 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-16 21:27 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2010-12-17 2:15 ` jidanni
2010-12-17 10:32 ` Richard Riley
2010-12-17 14:13 ` changes to spam.el (was: Poll time: Topics should default to on or off?) Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 22:52 ` Poll time: Topics should default to on or off? Greg Troxel
2010-12-18 20:41 ` Reiner Steib
2010-12-18 21:40 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-19 14:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-19 15:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-19 22:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-22 3:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-24 18:24 ` Robert Pluim
2011-01-24 22:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-24 22:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-24 22:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-25 17:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-25 22:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-26 16:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-26 22:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-27 19:38 ` how to start clean Gnus (was: Poll time: Topics should default to on or off?) Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-27 23:59 ` how to start clean Gnus Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-28 7:39 ` Reiner Steib
2011-01-28 15:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-21 20:53 ` Poll time: Topics should default to on or off? Steven E. Harris
2010-12-21 21:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-22 23:10 ` Steven E. Harris
2010-12-23 8:08 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-23 12:53 ` Matt Lundin
2010-12-23 13:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-23 19:22 ` Steinar Bang
2011-01-19 22:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-02 6:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-03 6:53 ` Steinar Bang
2011-01-04 0:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-04 9:09 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-15 20:03 ` Streamlining first-time Gnus usage Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 21:26 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2010-12-13 21:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 22:23 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2010-12-15 15:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-14 8:55 ` Francis Moreau
2010-12-16 18:17 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-15 21:04 ` Unmark old messages Johnny
2011-02-15 21:17 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-15 21:39 ` Johnny
2011-02-15 21:58 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-15 22:28 ` Johnny
2011-02-15 22:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-15 23:11 ` Johnny
2010-12-15 15:50 ` Streamlining first-time Gnus usage Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 13:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-12-16 16:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-17 16:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-12-17 16:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-18 21:01 ` Reiner Steib
2010-12-18 23:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-14 10:21 ` Richard Riley
2010-12-14 1:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-12-14 8:39 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-15 20:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-16 4:00 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-12-16 9:21 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-17 2:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2010-12-17 13:42 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-17 14:54 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-12-17 15:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 16:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-17 2:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-12-17 16:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-14 10:20 ` Richard Riley
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