From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42990 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Switched IMAP servers, lost marks Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:32:19 +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 1035178153 15148 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:29:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:29:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 26878 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2002 23:35:27 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 7 Feb 2002 23:35:27 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Yy4T-0003Ic-00; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:35:17 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:34:50 -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 RAA08678 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:33:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 26820 invoked by alias); 7 Feb 2002 23:33:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26815 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2002 23:33:20 -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 23:33:20 -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 g17NWb0M001614; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 00:33:17 +0100 Original-To: dcohen@webmethods.com In-Reply-To: (dcohen@webmethods.com's message of "07 Feb 2002 15:01:31 -0800") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 24 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:42990 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42990 dcohen@webmethods.com writes: > Simon Josefsson 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.