From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69055 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "No such article" error Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:11:10 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <87ws3pji1t.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87hbutb0wa.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87ws3miw5m.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254132712 9193 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2009 10:11:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:11:52 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17472=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 28 12:11:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MsDCq-00077M-R1 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:11:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MsDCm-0007Xt-VZ for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:11:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MsDCl-0007Xn-Fg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:11:39 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MsDCh-000515-Oa for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:11:38 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MsDDK-0006WR-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:12:14 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MsDCg-00075P-N5 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:11:34 +0200 Original-Received: from 217.144.235.5 ([217.144.235.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:11:34 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by 217.144.235.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:11:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.144.235.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KCHlmfHE34cHxttA5Ctlhg359wI= X-Spam-Score: -0.8 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69055 Archived-At: >>>>> Ted Zlatanov : > Maildirs can't be rsynced IIRC. You need to use a program that does it. Sure you can rsync. The --fuzzy flag is your friend: The problem for rsync, is that the file name is changed when the state of the message is changed. But the fuzzy flag looks for similar-looking name and if everything else matches, takes it as the same file. (FWIW you could always rsync. rsync is pretty good at mirroring file system hierarchies. It just wouldn't neccessarily be efficient network wise. It would have to delete the file with the old file name, and retransfer the new one, when a message's status is changed) > I would just copy over IMAP--select all messages from group A and copy > them to group B; repeat as needed. That will preserve marks through > IMAP and DTRT in general. FWIW this is what I did when moving from cyrus to dovecot. But replicating the dovecot folders to a different machine (poor man's backup), is done with rsync. Using imap itself to replicate has the advantage that you can have two live imap servers. I don't think > I don't use dovecot so I don't know if there's an easier way, sorry. dovecot is pretty good: simple to install and configure, transparent behaviour (i.e. information not hidden inside centralized obscure data bases, but in well documented formats in users' home directories), and cooperates well with mail filtering and processing software. And yes... it is stable. I haven't had a single hiccup since I started using it.