Re: POP to IMAP

[Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl>]

Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

[...]

>> Thirdly, it took quite some time to move all my archived messages to
>> the IMAP server.  I had to go into every group (C-u RET), select all
>> messages (M P b), and move (B m) them an IMAP group.[...]  I would
>> be nice if there were an easier way to do this.  Maybe there is, but
>> I just don't know about it.
>
> You may loop over all relevant groups and let a function do the task.
> Something like this:
>

[... group copying code ...]

Thanks.

What would be really nice, is to have a command (able to deal with
marked groups in the *Group* buffer) that can copy/move a group from
one virtual server to another (provided the target backend allows
this).

This would make migrating from POP to IMAP as easy as first process
marking all groups on the POP virtual server and moving them to the
IMAP virtual server, and then doing some cleanup on some groups on the
POP virtual server that were not deleted due to messages that failed
to copy.

The group copy/move command would be useful for other things as well.
For example, you could easily change from nnml to nnfolder if your
mail archive starts to consume an alarming number of inodes.

Lute.


PS  Hmm, I just see that there is a command
    ,----
    | gnus-group-move-group-to-server is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-move'.
    | (gnus-group-move-group-to-server INFO FROM-SERVER TO-SERVER)
    | 
    | Move the group on the current line from FROM-SERVER to TO-SERVER.
    | 
    | [back]
    `----
    but this seems to relate to synchronising basically the same newsgroup
    on two different newsservers.