Re: Moving mails

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

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David S. Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

> > > > > >  On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:14:26 +0200, Xavier Maillard
> > > > > >  <zedek@gnu-rox.org> said:
>  
> >  I also want to do some clean up on my current mail directories and
> >  so I want to separate mails from news.
>  
>  I have a .Mail and a .News.  Under the former is nnml directories.
>  Under the latter is score/adapt files and the agent directories.  Do
>  you keep all that in the same place now?
>  
> >  In fact all I want to do is a simple 'cp' of my ~/Mail and from
> >  there, separate news from mails. So the final setup will look like
> >  : ~/.email ~/.news
>  
> >  I know which variable(s) I must change but I fear that at next
> >  startup of Gnus, all I will have is a not-workable setup (meaning
> >  gnus going crazy).
>  
>  I would first do a straight copy and leave everything in ~/Mail.  Run
>  gnus, make sure all is well.  copy, don't move, the groups/files etc
>  from ~/.Mail that you want into ~/.email.  Backup your .newsrc* and
>  .emacs and .gnus files and edit to reflect the change.  Run gnus and
>  make sure all is well.  then do the same for .news.  If all is well,
>  rename ~/Mail to something else.  If all is well after than, remove
>  ~/Mail and you're all set.

This is actually how I am planning to do it but it seems to be a pain
:). If there is another quicker solution, I take it ;) (I have 4.9G of
mails :))

zeDek
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