Re: Migrating to IMAP for real? As a native method, anyway.

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

On 21 Feb 2001, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:

> I moved my existing stuff, created a "tentative" new configuration,
> started it, populated the group list, put my old config back, and
> edited GROUPS.eld directly based on differences between it and the
> "tentative" setup. :-)

Yeah.  That gives me an idea: I could add a secondary nntp server,
then subscribe a group on it.  Then I see what's the difference
between the native nntp group entries in ~/.newsrc.eld and the
secondary ones, and off I go (editing ~/.newsrc.eld).

And when the native server doesn't have any subscribed groups, I just
change gnus-select-method to point to the IMAP server.  And then I
subscribe a group there and again I have a template to work from.

Ah.  That might actually work.

Or maybe I just do what you did: create a tentative config with nnimap
as native and nntp as secondary.

But I think I did something like this before (nnml rather than nnimap,
though), and I went back for some reason.  Hm.  Maybe the reason was
that I didn't have gnus-post-method set to current back then, so it
was difficult to post news.  But I'm not sure what was the problem
back then.

Ah, maybe I'll just try it and see what happens :-)

kai
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