From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28846 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Moving News and Mail Date: 19 Jan 2000 05:00:42 -0800 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 1035165621 31952 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:00:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:00:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF0B1D051E for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:23:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB13006; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:21:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:20:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA05036 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:20:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id A5E0BD051E for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:20:27 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 26872 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2000 13:23:50 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (root@209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 19 Jan 2000 13:23:50 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA03011; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 05:20:24 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.ptw.com: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Jaap-Henk Hoepman's message of "18 Jan 2000 18:51:00 +0100" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.4 Original-Lines: 37 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28846 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28846 Jaap-Henk Hoepman writes: > On 16 Jan 2000 18:43:02 -0800 Harry Putnam writes: > > But what will happen when I redo those Variables and start writing to > > the new directories containing thousands of old messages. Will gnus > > just continue without a stutter or will there be a sort of start over > > of some kind? Is there some kind of proceedure I need to follow? > > I've just moved all my old mail directories to a new location, changed the > required variables (nnfolder-directory and nnml-directory), and copied the > .newsrc.eld file to my new home directory, and it all worked without problem. Good to hear ... thanks > > > Webglimpse will be writing files in the gnus directories too. > > .glimpse* files and other control files etc. They can be contained > > inside a subdirectory for neatness, but will these directories bother > > the unborn Oort inside of pgnus? > From personal experience I can tell that gnus believes all/most > stuff inside a > mail folder to be mail. If you create new files or > directories, gnus may think > it is a new group or something. I found > out the hard way when I tried to store > both nnfolder and nnml files > in a single directory. Ouch! I'm not sure whether > certain filenames > (e.g. starting with a dot) are ignored. That would have been from both backends using the same gnus control files I think. In my case I don't think gnus will care that a separate subdir is in there long as it isn't in gnus control files like 'active' or '.overview' I haven't done this yet so don't know for sure. Thanks for the input.