From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67365 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Questions about nnimap and cyrus->dovecot migration Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:26:36 +1000 Organization: I know I put it down here, somewhere. Message-ID: <87tzckk9oz.fsf@rimspace.net> References: <87r67x48ow.fsf@dod.no> <8763p8puli.fsf@rimspace.net> <878wu44f4x.fsf@dod.no> <871vzwph4i.fsf@rimspace.net> <874p4s45ej.fsf@dod.no> <87hc8lnjxt.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221276984 27092 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2008 03:36:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:36:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15816@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Sep 13 05:37:20 2008 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 4.50) id 1KeLwk-0000KF-QO for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:37:19 +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 1KeLuk-0006x7-6d; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:35:14 -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 1KeLui-0006ws-SC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KeLue-0007Cy-Sf for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KeLuf-0001mk-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:35:09 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KeLuZ-0004Qk-SS for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:35:03 +0000 Original-Received: from ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net ([59.167.189.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:35:03 +0000 Original-Received: from daniel by ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:35:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-Distribution: bofh Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8yWS5cqWbWRuXdLx9/YydgtT+U8= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67365 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> Steinar Bang : > >> Right! I think I'll do that, and post my experiences. > > I couldn't figure out how to run cyrus2courier using dovemap style > maildir under the users' home directories. And I suspected > cyrus2maildir.py was limited. > > So I set up dovemap on a different machine, and ran imapsync > transferring the messages. > > That worked fine, but to my disappointment the Gnus tickmarks haven't > been preserved. As far as I know dovemap preserves client specific > marks. Yeah, it uses a number of Gnus flags to record ticked, seen, forwarded, etc. I know this because they show up in the Zimbra web client as additional tags to the messages. > Have I been mistaken in that nnimap stores its tickmarks as custom > marks on the messages? Have I overlooked some imapsync arguments to > preserve these marks? I never needed any specific argument to make that work, no. Not that this helps much, but as far as I know it should have worked. Regards, Daniel