From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/830 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: IMAP server recommendation? Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:19:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <874rf0ll2f.fsf@alum.wpi.edu> <83u1my9sb8.fsf@HERMANST.myopwv.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667730 8594 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:35:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:35:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:10 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1027701316 2592 217.13.230.178 (26 Jul 2002 16:35:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jul 2002 16:35:16 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:saqH5eD3YGZHDXUm/gybOG34tUI= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:970 Original-Lines: 19 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 970 Tue Jan 17 17:28:10 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:830 Archived-At: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Ned Ludd writes: > >> I'd go with Cyrus. I'm running it here. The only problem with it is >> that it keeps a proprietary directory and mailbox format. So if you >> ever want to leave it, you'll have to figure out how to get all the >> mail out. > > I thought the directories can be converted to MH directories by just > removing the "." at the end of all the numbered filenames? So just > rename all "42." files to "42" (for varying values of 42) and you'll > be all set, no? But all flags are lost. When converting from Cyrus, the easiest is probably to set up the new server first though, and then use Gnus or some other IMAP client to move all messages from the old to the new.