Re: converting archive group to different format without losing marks

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Joe Wells <jbw@izanami.cee.hw.ac.uk> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> I presume that nnml is your primary mail backend, and that you are
>> satisfied with a single nnml:outgoing group, which is on the same
>> server as your other nnml mail.
>
> Does it cause a problem if I am not already using nnml?  I would also
> like to move my incoming e-mail from nnbabyl to nnml.

No problem, I just wanted to simply my instructions.  If you want to
put your outgoing group into a new backend, you'll have to create that
server.  For example:

(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nnml "archive"
               (nnml-directory "~/Mail-archive")))

Then, you can use the group nnml+archive:outgoing.  Maybe you need to
add more parameters, in addition to nnml-directory.  nnml-active-file
comes to mind.

But if you want to move from nnbabyl to nnml anyway...

>> Change your setting for gnus-message-archive-group from "misc-mail"
>> to "nnml:outgoing" (with "nnml:").  The value for
>> gnus-message-archive-method does not really matter -- just leave it
>> as it is.
>
> Am I correct in understanding that the prefix "nnml:" effectively
> overrides the value of gnus-message-archive-method?

That's right.

kai
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