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* Re: question about changing nnml-directory
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@ 2004-01-28 16:27 ` David Hanak
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From: David Hanak @ 2004-01-28 16:27 UTC (permalink / raw)


On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Anupam Kapoor wrote:

> for my gnus setup, i had defined the 'nnml-directory' to be
> "~/mail.work". now, i want to change it back to "~/mail". 
>
> can i just set 'nnml-directory' to "~/mail" without risking my
> existing mail corpus ? or something more elaborate is required ?

I think you can.  You might need to set the variable nnml-active-file, too,
but otherwise you don't need to modify anything else.  I've also relocated
my nnml groups recently, and all went smoothly.

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