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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce+usenet@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Migrating IMAP (nnimap) servers?
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:09:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5tg9leg.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3oed0dc6f.fsf@caruso.quasi.local>

"Bruno Hertz" <spammer.go.home@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> I'm not totally sure, so additional comments are welcome, but afaik
> all the marks Gnus maintains locally for news are stored as imap
> flags on the server, like read, seen, ticked and even dormant (might
> depend on your Gnus version, though). So just switching servers
> should go alright without further actions in this regard, if the
> flags are migrated, too.

That sounds hopeful.

> What I'm not sure about is what to do with possibly cached articles.
> Maybe somebody else can tell more?

I've not used those (with imap, anyway).  I'd guess that there'd be an
issue with those---presumably it uses some kind of numbering, and
presumably that's the server-specific article number.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-31 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-30 20:56 Bruce Stephens
2005-03-30 22:03 ` Bruno Hertz
2005-03-31 10:09   ` Bruce Stephens [this message]
2005-03-31 14:15     ` Bruno Hertz
2005-04-04 21:04       ` Bruce Stephens
2005-04-04 22:35         ` Bruno Hertz

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