From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8936 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Switching backends Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 16:28:59 +0200 Message-ID: <86r6pzguz8.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <87y7k7l9b4.fsf@moley.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178116171 17268 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2007 14:29:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 14:29:31 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 02 16:29:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjFph-0001Qs-1A for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 16:29:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjFw6-0003eX-Hw for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 10:36:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjFw2-0003Zd-OV for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 10:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjFw0-0003ZA-3w for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 10:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjFvz-0003Yy-QU for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 10:35:59 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjFpZ-00083X-Ck for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 10:29:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HjFpL-0000zW-JJ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 16:29:15 +0200 Original-Received: from de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net ([62.191.185.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 May 2007 16:29:07 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 May 2007 16:29:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xg2mLl4xHEzsRmdAXv+jKgf522k= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:8936 Archived-At: Sebastian Tennant writes: > I'd like to switch backends and migrate all my old nnfolder mail to > nnml (for ease of indexing). First of all, you can keep your old nnfolder folders and migrate them on a case-by-case basis, as needed. Secondly, you can turn off topics mode in the group buffer, sort the groups such that all nnfolder groups are together, then record a keyboard macro that does the following: - Extract the group name from the current line in the group buffer (sans nnfolder prefix). - Create a new group with the same name in the nnml backend (with G m). - Enter the nnfolder group, showing all articles, no threading. - M P a to mark all articles. - B m to move or B c to copy them into the nnml group. - Exit the nnfolder group, returning to the group buffer. - Advance to the next group in the group buffer. Then execute that macro as often as needed. This seems somewhat obvious, though, so I'm not sure if it really helps. Kai