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From: Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com>
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Subject: Re: automatically converting 400+ nnmh groups to nnml?
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amu@mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:
| Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com> writes:
| > Any suggestions for automatically converting 400+ nnmh groups to nnml?
| > I'd rather avoid all that typing :-)
| > 
| > Actually they aren't officially nnmh groups as far as Gnus is concerned --
| > I haven't yet told Gnus about them -- they're left over from my days of
| > using e-mh, then Mew (another MH-based Emacs interface).
| 
| Tell Gnus that they're nnml and run the command
| nnml-generate-nov-databases.  This will work because nnml is basically
| nnmh with overview files.

Thanks.
I ended up editing .newsrc.eld and active to do that,
then I ran nnml-generate-nov-databases as you suggested.

Worked like a charm.