From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87456 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Mann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Moving mail between imap servers Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 09:52:03 -0600 Message-ID: References: <877f39jwk3.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1491148410 6270 195.159.176.226 (2 Apr 2017 15:53:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 15:53:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (darwin) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m35677@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Apr 02 17:53:26 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from mxfilter-048035.atla03.us.yomura.com ([107.189.48.35]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cuhob-0000Lc-T9 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2017 17:53:18 +0200 X-Yomura-MXScrub: 1.0 Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu (unknown [129.7.128.208]) by mxfilter-048035.atla03.us.yomura.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id 7eddb9da-17bc-11e7-b087-b499baabecb2; Sun, 02 Apr 2017 15:53:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1cuhnh-00022v-0b; Sun, 02 Apr 2017 10:52:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1cuhne-00022R-9W for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 02 Apr 2017 10:52:18 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1cuhnc-0001bx-Mw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 02 Apr 2017 10:52:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1cuhnb-0000vx-Ay for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2017 17:52:15 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cuhnQ-0001CG-BD for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2017 17:52:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:bXdtO2M+nprcXymIe7Ucx8x8TQ0= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87456 Archived-At: Alberto, Alberto Luaces writes: > David Mann writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if it is possible to move a message from one imap server >> to another using gnus? The specific use-case I am thinking of is as >> follows. I have a private imap server and a Gmail account. I would >> like to move some messages from the private account to a Gmail folder. >> This is possible using something like the Apple Mail app, but when I use >> gnus with Helm, the only folders shown as available to move mail to are >> on the same server. >> >> So is it possible to move mail between servers? > > I have been able to copy messages between different backends. Do not be > surprised that some of them are not listed in the autocompletions; in my > experience, those shown are usually the more recently used. > > If you just type the complete name of the group, gnus will either do the > operation happily, or either ask you about the creation of a new group > if you happened to mistype its name. > > Nevertheless, for the first try I would *copy* rather to move you mails > just to be sure nothing is lost in the process. Thanks. I will try this. David