Re: How To Switch To Another IMAP Server?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

On 18 Oct 2001, Jake Colman wrote:

> My office has decided to replace our current IMAP Server, truman, with a new
> IMAP Server, hamilton.  For the next few days, both servers will be available
> to me but next week truman will be taken off-line.  The SA's have copied all
> my mailboxes and folders from truman to hamilton and all new email will be
> sent to hamilton.
>
> So how do I tell gnus that I now want it to access hamilton instead of
> truman?  What I have done in the meantime is to subscribe to new nnimap
> mailboxes on hamilton giving them the same name as they had on truman.  This,
> of course, gave me two entries for each mailbox, one on each server.  I have
> killed (C-k) many of the truman copies of these mailboxes.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) Was there a better way to have done this?

Can't think of one.

> 2) Some of the truman mailboxes have ticked articles marked with an
>    exclamation point.  How do I get the hamilton copies of the messages
>    ticked the same way.

How was the messages copied between the servers?  The flags should be
copied as well.

> 3) I still have references to the killed truman mailboxes in my .newsrc.eld.
>    Is this a problem?

Shouldn't be, but you can probably remove them by running some command to
kill "zombies" or "killed" groups, or something like that.

> 4) I currently have entries for both truman and hamilton in my
>    gnus-secondary-select-methods.  When I start gnus, it logs on to both
>    servers, prompting me for passwords for both.  Great!  If I remove truman,
>    I crap out with a lisp error.  Before I delve into this and give you a
>    better report, is there something obvious I missed that would cause a
>    problem, perhaps one of the items mentioned above?

No, it is a bug.  Can you post the entire backtrace?