Re: How To Switch To Another IMAP Server?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

On 19 Oct 2001, Jake Colman wrote:

> Simon,
>
> Are the gnus tick marks actually stored on the IMAP server?  I thought they
> were an artificial invention of gnus.  I cannot imagine how they night have
> copied things over such that all the email arrived but not the associated
> marks.

Everything is stored on the IMAP server, and copying the articles without
the marks isn't good.  If you have access to both servers still, maybe you
can copy everything again with marks.

>
> ...Jake
>
>
> >>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>     SJ> 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?
>
>     SJ> 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.
>
>     SJ> How was the messages copied between the servers?  The flags should be
>     SJ> copied as well.
>
>     >> 3) I still have references to the killed truman mailboxes in my
>     >>    .newsrc.eld.
>     >> Is this a problem?
>
>     SJ> Shouldn't be, but you can probably remove them by running some
>     SJ> 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?
>
>     SJ> No, it is a bug.  Can you post the entire backtrace?
>
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