Re: Converting NNMH mail to NNML.

[Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Without knowing how your split and servers are setup, I'll make some
> (possibly bad) guesses.

:-)
Your guesses can give me some clues. 

> If your secondary select method is currently set to nnmh like:
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnmh "")))

Actually it is:

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '(
                                      ;(nnml "private")
                                      ;(nnslashdot "")))
                                      (nnmh "")
                                      (nnfolder "")
                                      )
      )

> You'll need to change that to:
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))

Ok... So the "private" wasn't any configuration value... or was it? If
so, what is this value intended for? I think I've tried without it
too... 

If I change this and don't keep the nnmh method as secondary, I can't
access any of these groups. 

> Then restart gnus or re-evaluate ~/.gnus
> 
> I believe splitting only goes to the default servers

Hmmmm... I can check that...

My rules are like this:

(setq nnmail-split-methods
      '(
        ("admin-linux-br" "^Sender:.*admin-linux-br")
        ("afc2000" "^Mailing-List:.*afc2000@egroups")
        ("amanda-backup" "^From:.*amanda@backup\.conectiva")
        ("beta" "^X-Mailing-List:.*beta")
        ("bos-br" "^Sender:.*bos-br-owner")
        )
)

> Now depending on how your split rules are setup, you should be able to
> create nndir groups of each of your nnmh groups in turn (since nndir
> is read only, your nnmh group should stay safe in case something goes
> wrong)
> 
> When an nndir group is created then `M P a' in summary buffer and run 
> `B r' to respool each message to what will now be nnml groups.
> 
> When this is done press `F' in group buffer to see all the new nnml
> groups your split created.
> 
> If this is successful you can then do C-u G del on the nnmh groups in turn.

I'm trying this now... Just making (another) backup of my messages.


Thanks!
-- 
Godoy.	<godoy@conectiva.com> 

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