Re: Migrating to IMAP for real? As a native method, anyway.

[rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand)]

** Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> on 21 Feb 2001 21:16:44 +0100
** in [Migrating to IMAP for real?  As a native method, anyway.] writes:

Kai> I will be migrating to IMAP sometime in the not so distant future, and
Kai> I thought maybe I should try to make nnimap my primary select method.

Kai> Does anybody have experience with using nnimap as the native server?

Kai> And what would be the least painful way to migrate from me having:

Kai> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "foo"))
Kai> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnimap "" (nnimap-address "bar"))
        (nnml "")))

Kai> to me having this:

Kai> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "" (nnimap-address "bar")))
Kai> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnml "")
        (nntp "" (nntp-address "foo"))))

Kai> I'd like to keep all marks, if possible.  But of course, I only want
Kai> to do this if there won't be tons of problems.

I am by no means an exprt on Gnus stuff, but I like it anyway.

An approach that I've been using for a few weeks is to basically have
gnus-select-method do nothing, and have everything in
gnus-secondary-select-methods. This has saved me some hassle in
switching things around as the groups are always fully qualified.

(setq gnus-select-method
      '(nnfolder "~/Mail/empty/"
		 (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
		 (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnml "rand")
	(nnimap "Agena"
		(nnimap-address "agena")
		(nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "mail/*")))
	(nntp "news.uswest.net")
	(nntp "news.freshmeat.net")))

I picked the nnfolder because it seemed the easiest to have do nothing
at all.