From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42980 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Switched IMAP servers, lost marks Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 22:51:52 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035178145 15075 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:29:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:29:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25148 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2002 21:54:40 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 7 Feb 2002 21:54:40 -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 16YwUJ-0001vF-00; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:53:52 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:53:27 -0600 (CST) 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 PAA08134 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:52:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 25050 invoked by alias); 7 Feb 2002 21:51:59 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25045 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2002 21:51:59 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 7 Feb 2002 21:51:59 -0000 Original-Received: from dhcp133.extundo.com (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g17Lps0M000869; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:51:55 +0100 Original-To: Dnc In-Reply-To: (Dnc's message of "07 Feb 2002 13:24:47 -0800") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42980 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42980 Dnc 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.