From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54006 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Moving mails Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:26:55 +0200 Organization: GNU Rox ! Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064014057 19696 80.91.224.253 (19 Sep 2003 23:27:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2546=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Sep 20 01:27:35 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A0Uf1-0002x8-00 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:27:35 +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 1A0Uf0-0000Qp-05 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:27:34 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1A0Uev-0000Qi-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:27:29 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.gnu-rox.org (rms.gnu-rox.org [213.41.134.247]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E620C3A004F for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:27:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from fxgs.gnu-rox.org.gnu-rox.org (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by smtp.gnu-rox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325323E190 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:27:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List 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 X-Face: 63TbQAY?C>dKDtNNr7 In-Reply-To: (David S. Goldberg's message of "Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:13:49 -0400") 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:54006 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54006 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David S. Goldberg writes: > > > > > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:14:26 +0200, Xavier Maillard > > > > > > said: >=20=20 > > I also want to do some clean up on my current mail directories and > > so I want to separate mails from news. >=20=20 > 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? >=20=20 > > 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 >=20=20 > > 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). >=20=20 > 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 --=20 "It's almost as pathetic as disgruntled Windows users writing "Open Letters" to Microsoft/billg asking them to improve windows. Why do they do this? It must be masochism." (Chris Mikkelson) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/a5DDw9rnDkzlHXERAr9TAJ42c7dtn2AbJ+4UUbx7kCww+Ft5FQCfZMnZ tge7qYTrXOwel9KChkLWuxw= =iHiN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--