From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/34925 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Migrating to IMAP for real? As a native method, anyway. Date: 23 Feb 2001 11:16:33 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87n1bdiaku.fsf@delta.meridian-enviro.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170757 336 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:25:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:25:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E94D049F for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:17:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAC28186; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:17:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:16:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11413 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:16:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from agena.meridian-enviro.com (thunder.meridian-enviro.com [207.109.234.227]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0088D049F for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:16:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from delta.meridian-enviro.com (delta.meridian-enviro.com [10.10.10.43]) by agena.meridian-enviro.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1NHGYQ81387; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:16:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rand@meridian-enviro.com) Original-Received: (from rand@localhost) by delta.meridian-enviro.com (8.11.1/8.9.2) id f1NHGYG40506; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:16:34 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: delta.meridian-enviro.com: rand set sender to rand@meridian-enviro.com using -f Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "21 Feb 2001 21:16:44 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 48 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34925 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34925 ** Kai Gro=DFjohann 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.