From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79081 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Switching between nnimap and nnmaildir? Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:34:13 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87pqmh667u.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <878vt9czbg.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307982887 15829 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2011 16:34:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:34:47 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27380@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jun 13 18:34:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWA67-00038x-HP for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:34:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QWA5z-0007uR-3A; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:34:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QWA5y-0007uG-1z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QWA5w-0000B9-Iy for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:34:33 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QWA5t-0006I2-OW for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:34:29 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWA5s-0002zw-UM for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:34:28 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.133 ([38.98.147.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:34:28 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.133 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:34:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.133 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yM7M52EWChXPCrO/lpKtfWBmTeU= X-Spam-Score: -3.7 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79081 Archived-At: On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:32:19 +0200 lee wrote: l> gnus is accessing my emails via IMAP (courier-imapd), with the emails l> stored in maildir format. What would happen if I was to switch back and l> forth between nnimap and nnmaildir select methods, accessing the same l> maildir folders either way? l> Will it have any bad effects when accessing the same emails with other l> IMAP clients, or with other MUAs (like mutt) that access the maildir l> folders directly? It should be OK, except custom Gnus flags may not be preserved. No mail will be lost unless you delete messages or set up expiry. Try it, making a backup of the Maildir first to be sure. Ted