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From: Paul Franklin <paul@cs.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Extracting from old nnml..
Date: 21 Jul 1997 11:43:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <r9qracsjlf9.fsf@maryanne.cs.washington.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dsg@linus.mitre.org's message of 21 Jul 1997 12:02:21 -0400

>>>>> David S. Goldberg writes:

 > If you can't just move all the files over for some reason, why not
 > just create an nnml server pointing at the old directory?  If you
 > want, you can B-c (B-m if permissions are right) everything from
 > there.  It's got to be faster than remailing everything to yourself.

 > Just enter the server buffer and add an nnml server with some name
 > like "oldnnml".  Then edit that server to specify nnml-directory and
 > nnml-active-file.  Then browse it.

If you do this, I highly advise setting nnml-get-new-mail to nil for
"oldnnml".  Otherwise, it's not clear which nnml server will get your
mail.

--Paul


  reply	other threads:[~1997-07-21 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-07-21 15:00 Andy Eskilsson
1997-07-21 16:02 ` David S. Goldberg
1997-07-21 18:43   ` Paul Franklin [this message]
1997-07-21 17:59 ` Kai Grossjohann

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