From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Switched IMAP servers, lost marks
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:32:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluwuxouav0.fsf@dhcp133.extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u1yfwlwvo.fsf@webmethods.com> (dcohen@webmethods.com's message of "07 Feb 2002 15:01:31 -0800")
dcohen@webmethods.com writes:
> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Hmmm... All I did was change my nnimap-address in my .gnus. So, I
> simply started connecting to the new server in place of the old
> one. I didn't try to connect to both servers at once. Is it a
> problem that I left the server name the same?
It shouldn't be. But you could try adding a new server with a
different name to see if the marks are preserved on it. If so, we
could try to debug it further.
>> If both your servers are online, maybe you can copy your mailboxes
>> using Gnus which should preserve marks.
>
> This may be a good option for me. Sorry for the dumb question, but
> can you tell me how to accomplish this?
Process mark articles in a group using # and copy them using B c.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-07 23:32 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
2002-02-07 23:01 ` dcohen
2002-02-07 23:32 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-02-08 7:25 ` Steinar Bang
2002-02-10 22:55 ` Martin Thornquist
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