Re: moving mail from nnml -> nnimap

[Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net>]

Simon> Simon Josefsson <URL:mailto:simon@josefsson.org>

0> In article <m23dm9sg21.fsf@angelica.rsasecurity.com>,
0> Simon wrote:

Simon> Soren Dayton <dayton@overx.com> writes:

>> what do people do about the change is group hierarchy seperator?
>> Exchange uses "foo/bar" where gnus uses "foo.bar".  I just have to
>> do the translation myself because Exchange is more promiscuous
>> about names than gnus?  Is that the solution?
>> 
>> I see that gnus doesn't support making groups with "/" in the
>> names.  What have people done here?

Simon> Used group names with `/' names in them anyway. :-)
Simon>
Simon> I patched my version of `gnus-read-group' to allow `/' in group
Simon> names, and haven't noticed any problems.  I guess there might
Simon> be problems with backends other than nnimap, and that's the
Simon> reasons for the limit in valid characters.

I just subscribed my groups from browsing the server - I wasn't even
aware that Gnus didn't like the '/' (I've had no problems with spaces,
either).  My new groups were all created by splitting, so I've had no
problems there, either.