Re: POP to IMAP

[Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>]

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On 30 jun 2003, Lute Kamstra spake thusly:

>  Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
>  
> >  As the subject line say, I am about to migrate all my data from
> >  POP3 to IMAP mail protocol.
> >  
> >  Does anyone know if there are difficulties to achieve such a task ?
>  
>  I just migrated from POP to IMAP and I encountered three problems.

Oh it seems I should have read people ansxers before :(
In fact I have encountered problems here too.
  
>  Firstly, if you use nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent and still have
>  your old POP (nnfolder) mail groups lying around, Gnus recognizes if
>  new mails refer to a mail you have in you old archive, but tries to
>  split them into a mailbox on the IMAP server with the same name as
>  the group the parent is in on the old backend.  This is temporary,
>  but can be a bit confusing at first.

It is not my case ;)
  
>  Secondly, I had a few problems with moving my nnfolder mail archive
>  to the IMAP server; approximately one in 500 messages could not be
>  copied.  I got several error messages.  A few were caused by
>  incorrect headers (which you can just delete by editing the message),
>  but most errors were due to non ASCII characters in the message
>  bodies.  Especially, the \201 character seemed to cause trouble.
>  What usually helped was first moving the message to the same nnfolder
>  group is was already in and then trying to copy it to the IMAP
>  server.  If that didn't work, editing a message (e) and saving it
>  (C-c C-c) worked for me as it removed the troublesome characters.

I have encountered the same problem here with a few messages too. The
trick used there was to edit each of 'em manually and remove/correct
the errorneous part.
  
>  Thirdly, it took quite some time to move all my archived messages to
>  the IMAP server.  I had to go into every group (C-u RET), select all
>  messages (M P b), and move (B m) them an IMAP group.  With the number
>  of mail groups I accumulated over the years, this took quit some
>  time.  I would be nice if there were an easier way to do this.  Maybe
>  there is, but I just don't know about it.

Thanx for the hint ;) I have a big group (3500 msg) here to move into the IMAP
server so may be of interest for me :)  

zeDek
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