From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Switched IMAP servers, lost marks
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 22:51:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilug04dufif.fsf@dhcp133.extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uadulm1cw.fsf@webmethods.com> (Dnc's message of "07 Feb 2002 13:24:47 -0800")
Dnc <dnc@bigfoot.com> writes:
> Hi, I'm hoping to get some help related to nnimap. My IT department
> is in the process of switching servers, and I have only until saturday
> to get this resolved.
>
> Historically (until today), I've been using Oort Gnus 0.03, and the
> IMAP server I've connected to is from the University of Washington,
> version 4.5.
>
> Today, our IT department moved my mail to the new mail server, which
> is running Courier IMAP server, version 1.3.12.
>
> The first thing I noticed is a change to the directory structure.
> Where in my old imap I had mailboxes with names like "mail/in/dnc",
> they are now "INBOX.in.dnc". No big deal there, some string
> substitution in my .gnus should resolve the issues.
>
> But, I took a look at whats in "INBOX.in.dnc", and I see that all my
> mail is there, but all marks are gone. Every mail looks unread. Now,
> I have quite a few mailboxes, and quite a few old emails in them. I'm
> wondering if there's some way I can preserve the marks which still
> exist on the old imap server. Also, I'm wondering if my IT department
> did something wrong to drop the marks, or is there nothing they can do
> about it?
Nnimap uses marks from the server, so unless you confused Gnus somehow
(e.g., by chosing the same Gnus server name for both of your servers)
I think this is a server problem.
If both your servers are online, maybe you can copy your mailboxes
using Gnus which should preserve marks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-07 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-07 21:24 Dnc
2002-02-07 21:51 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-02-07 23:01 ` dcohen
2002-02-07 23:32 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-02-08 7:25 ` Steinar Bang
2002-02-10 22:55 ` Martin Thornquist
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