* Moving mails
@ 2003-09-17 23:14 Xavier Maillard
2003-09-19 19:13 ` David S Goldberg
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From: Xavier Maillard @ 2003-09-17 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
I am just planning right now to move all my mails from one location to
another as I will have a new laptop in less than a week.
I also want to do some clean up on my current mail directories and so I
want to separate mails from news.
Problem is I can't remember (if I ever knew ;)) what is the best
practice to achieve such a task.
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).
So except the cp stuff, what do I need to do ? Regenerate my newsrc file
?
It is quite urgent so in case someone has an idea ...
Thanx,
zeDek
--
"mal ne ganz dumme frage: wo zum geier ist das config-file zu der SVGAlib
?? ich finds net :(" (Adam Kopacz in d.c.o.l.m)
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* Re: Moving mails
2003-09-17 23:14 Moving mails Xavier Maillard
@ 2003-09-19 19:13 ` David S Goldberg
2003-09-19 23:26 ` Xavier Maillard
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: David S Goldberg @ 2003-09-19 19:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> 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.
--
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net
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* Re: Moving mails
2003-09-19 19:13 ` David S Goldberg
@ 2003-09-19 23:26 ` Xavier Maillard
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Xavier Maillard @ 2003-09-19 23:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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
--
"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)
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