Re: road warrior trying to simplify a mail setup

[David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net>]

When I moved most of my nnml groups to nnimap, I wrote the following:

(defun nnml2imap-group ()
  (interactive)
  (gnus-group-make-group
   (concat "INBOX." (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end)))
   "nnimap:linus"))

Obviously it's hardcoded for my environment.  You'll probably want to
fix that :-)

Then, in the group buffer I defined a keyboard macro that selected the
nnml group name (minus the nnml:) and ran the above function and then
jumped to the next nnml group line.  I ran C-x e with a large C-u
value and very quickly had all my nnimap groups set up.  Moving
messages from nnml to nnimap was also easy though a bit more time
consuming.  I wrote a temporary gnus-move-split-methods that replaced
the current (nnml) group name with its nnimap counter part.  M-P-b to
select all messages and then B-m RET took care of the rest.

hth,
-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net