From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53388 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: POP to IMAP Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 17:24:38 +0200 Organization: GNU Rox ! Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1057874498 9226 80.91.224.249 (10 Jul 2003 22:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:01:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1932@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 11 00:01:36 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ajTX-0002NO-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:01:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19ajTW-00025v-00; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:01:14 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19ajTS-00025q-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 20712 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2003 22:01:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20707 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2003 22:01:09 -0000 Original-Received: from rms.gnu-rox.org (HELO smtp.gnu-rox.org) (213.41.134.247) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2003 22:01:09 -0000 Original-Received: from fxgs.gnu-rox.org.gnu-rox.org (fxgs.local.gnu-rox.org [10.0.0.10]) by smtp.gnu-rox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D871D3E158; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:00:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Lute Kamstra Adress: zedek@gnu-rox.org X-URL: http://www.gnusfr.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gnu-rox.org X-Gpg-Key-ID: 4CE51D71 X-Gpg-Fingerprint: 298B 37DE E2EF C030 5D64 6CFF C3DA E70E 4CE5 1D71 X-Gpg-Affinity: Will accept encrypted message for GNUpg X-Disclaimer: Fourty Two X-Accept-Language: en, fr Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: 63TbQAY?C>dKDtNNr7 (Lute Kamstra's message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:45:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53388 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53388 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 30 jun 2003, Lute Kamstra spake thusly: > Xavier Maillard writes: >=20=20 > > As the subject line say, I am about to migrate all my data from > > POP3 to IMAP mail protocol. > >=20=20 > > Does anyone know if there are difficulties to achieve such a task ? >=20=20 > 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. =20=20 > 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 ;) =20=20 > 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. =20=20 > 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 I= MAP server so may be of interest for me :)=20=20 zeDek --=20 http://www.gnusfr.org -- French Gnus user site Anti-war disclaimer: "Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity" --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/BEq5w9rnDkzlHXERAtETAJ9G8o8CloJtX/Zg9GOcqVG+XxugJwCgmG8j H9VgzEd7atB0oZQnN/aj61I= =tbHY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--