Extracting from old nnml..

Extracting from old nnml..

[Andy Eskilsson]

Well my sysadm did it.. instead of creating a new parallell account he
renamed my old and gave me a new home.. ARRGH, ahh well.. Anyway,
decided to start clean.. 

So now I want to temporarily open my old nnml groups (can be found at
something like /pdisk/env1/home/x-aes/mail/nnml), copy the mail from
there to my newly created nnml-groups in my fresh gnus..

Uhm whats the easiest way to do this ('cd nnmldir; cat * |mail me') ??

	/andy

p.s. whats the status of the 'postpone'-message??

Re: Extracting from old nnml..

[David S. Goldberg]

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.  I just tested this by copying a
couple of my group directories to a new location and except that I had
to run nnml-generate-nov-databases in that server buffer to get an
active file built it worked just fine.  I was able to move and copy
between the two locations easily.  I haven't tried it, but I would
guess you could add this extra nnml server to your
gnus-secondary-select-methods list and it'll automatically be opened
whenever you run gnus.

hth,

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Re: Extracting from old nnml..

[Paul Franklin]

>>>>> 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

Re: Extracting from old nnml..

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> Andy Eskilsson writes:

  Andy> So now I want to temporarily open my old nnml groups (can be
  Andy> found at something like /pdisk/env1/home/x-aes/mail/nnml),
  Andy> copy the mail from there to my newly created nnml-groups in my
  Andy> fresh gnus..

In addition to David's (great) suggestion, you could create nneething
groups to point to the old directories.  Or use M-x
gnus-group-enter-directory RET.

kai
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