From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9991 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: IMAP problems Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:45:58 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <4852b47b-47cd-4824-a818-aa9a7e5764b4@a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <16960e98-b1c8-4693-9bf9-fb22691b254c@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196415127 21264 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2007 09:32:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:32:07 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 10:32:16 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 1Iy2EI-0000AL-RE for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:32:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iy2E3-0004TU-0Y for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:31:59 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.86.27.101 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1196376359 16495 127.0.0.1 (29 Nov 2007 22:45:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=72.86.27.101; posting-account=BFcRBQkAAADnxS-If0woqNHwOIg4YgZ6 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:80201 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:29:36 -0500 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:9991 Archived-At: On Nov 29, 9:35 am, Bill wrote: > Should I give up and move everything into HOME (aka c:/cygwin/home/my > name/ -- yes, it has a space :-( ), or is there a way to tell Emacs > 22.1 that it should look in C:/ even though HOME is defined by cygwin > as a different location? Answer: apparently yes. I renamed the Gnus files v.5.11 had already put there, copied over the .bbdb, .newsrc.eld, and .nnmail-cache from C:/ into ~/, and then copied C:/Mail and C:/News into HOME. When I fired up Gnus, everything (almost) was there. Moral of the story (for me, at least): 1. On Windows, HOME is moved. Get over it; it's a good idea (or so it seems). 2. Read the Emacs NEWS after upgrading; it told me all that. (It might have put it in 48 pt. type, though; there were a lot of changes. :-) That left one unanswered question: recovering the new email I've gotten in the last few days. I followed the directions in 6.3.8 Incorporating Old Mail, but it failed. Perhaps it works only for mbox files, and my "old" mail is in nnml format. At any rate, on step 3, Gnus won't let me enter the group, complaining "No such file or buffer". After some experimentation, I found that making a directory group (G d) would let me enter one of the groups I needed to move. That led to respooling the articles. I answered nnml as indicated, but then it wanted a server name. After a bit of reading, I decided "What can it hurt if I just press 'Enter'?" It seemed to work; I had 58 messages in the new mail.misc, and 22 of them made it back to the old mail.misc (presumably the others went to other folders). Surprisingly, the new mail.misc (the one I was trying to empty) still had the original 58 articles. I finally decided to mark each with an E, to exit the new group, and then to unsubscribe from the new group. Once I had all the groups respooled, I went back and killed them. That seemed to work, although there may be an easier way. Sorry for the long posting, but maybe it will help someone else. Now that most of the work is over (except for finding various new elisp packages, I like what I see in the new version. Bill