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(John Peel Session)" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wg/sdRJrEVLzqWdf4CGjz8F2l0M= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75117 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > In my case I was snarfing mboxes from an Apple Mail installation. I was > following the instructions under 6.4.8 "Incorporating Old Mail", > creating a nndoc group and then respooling. If nothing went wrong it was > okay, but the minute it choked, everything went to hell and it was > nearly impossible to get back on track. Right. That's probably not been tested a lot. Do you remember what went wrong? > I didn't understand the precariousness of the .newsrc.eld file back > then, and kept trying to change the nnml article numbers, and nothing > worked, and I felt like gnus hated me. This is one of the reasons the .newsrc.eld file looks like it does -- so that nobody would be tempted to edit it. I mean, nobody tries to edit, say, Thunderbird data files by hand... perhaps Gnus should start base64-ing the file before saving it. :-) > Even now, I have a heck of a time importing emails. While I was screwing > up moving my gnus installation into a different directory I got a > spurious Mail/misc directory with a single email in it, and there is > apparently no command to take that email and put it into my gnus system. nndir/nneething + `B c' should do the trick? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen