From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39437 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How To Switch To Another IMAP Server? Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:23:06 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <76wv1ssb4a.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175141 27821 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:39:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:39:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 2964 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 08:17:04 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 08:17:04 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15uUoB-0000zl-00; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 03:15:11 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 19 Oct 2001 03:14:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA12120 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 03:14:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 1333 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2001 08:14:55 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1321 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 08:14:54 -0000 Original-Received: from lie.extundo.com (195.42.214.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 08:14:54 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (jas@localhost) by lie.extundo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9J8N7c24334; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:23:07 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lie.extundo.com: jas owned process doing -bs Original-To: Jake Colman In-Reply-To: <76wv1ssb4a.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39437 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39437 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?