Re: Turning MH folders into nnml groups

[A. L. Meyers <me@privacy.net>]

Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> writes:

> A. L. Meyers <me@privacy.net> writes:
>
>> pd@world.std.com (Peter Davis) writes:
>> 
>> > A. L. Meyers <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>> > news:<87u1dmd42z.fsf@wassern.consult-meyers.com>...
>> >> 
>> >> Having tried both nnmaildir and nnml, yours truly finally converted
>> >> all groups to nnmh: compatible, tried and true, simple and stupid.
>> >> Never noticed any significant performance slag.  And, as LMI wrote
>> >> here, nnmh is the way to go if you, like me, must copy mails back and
>> >> forth between office, home office, notebook.
>> >
>> > I think I'd like to try using nnmh to see how the speed is (on a 3GHz
>> > Pentium with 1Gb of memory).  I have a tendency to switch mail tools
>> > among different programs, and MH is the most consistently supported
>> > format.  With that, I could switch among gnus, MH-E, MH itself, mutt,
>> > and Sylpheed.  That covers pretty much all the ones I'm likely to use.
>> >
>> > Is there some automatic way to switch my nnml groups to nnmh?  I
>> > suppose I could to 'F' to find all the groups, subscribe to the nnmh
>> > ones and unsubscribe from the nnml ones, right?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > -pd
>> 
>> If I recall correctly, nnml is already in "one mail, one file" format
>> but has some additional index files.  If you search back through the
>> archives, you will find a thread or two on the conversion subject.
>> There is, I recall, a way to automate the process into one or two
>> commands but, alas, I cannot recall exactly how.  Maybe some of the
>> knowledgeable experts who frequently contribute here :-) can assist?
>> nnmh can, however, read the raw nnml mail files without changing them.
>> nnmh does not use the nnml index files.
>
> Thanks.  Yes, nnml is kind of like supercharged nnmh.  However, I
> can't seem to get gnus to open my various MH folders, nor to generate
> new .overview files for them.  I'd like to start over completely, and
> add everything afresh.

nnmh has no .overview files AFAIK and AFAICS, having looked at my own
numerous nnmh directories.

Cheers!

Lucien
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