From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/807 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Two nnml backends in different directories Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:39:35 +0200 Organization: private Message-ID: References: Reply-To: reiner.steib@gmx.de NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667714 8495 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:08 2006 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Face: P05mdcZT&lL[-s2=mw~RsllZ0zZAb?vdE}.s On Sun, Jul 21 2002, Henrik Holm wrote: > I will of course lose all readedness marks and ticks from the > old directory, since that data is stored in .newsrc on the > old system -- but that is not a big issue for me. nnml (in recent Oort versions) uses marks. I guess this should help you: ,----[ ] | When the marks file is used (which it is by default), `nnml' servers | have the property that you may backup them using `tar' or similar, and | later be able to restore them into Gnus (by adding the proper `nnml' | server) and have all your marks be preserved. Marks for a group is | usually stored in the `.marks' file (but see `nnml-marks-file-name') | within each `nnml' group's directory. Individual `nnml' groups are | also possible to backup, use `G m' to restore the group (after | restoring the backup into the nnml directory). `---- Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- PGP key available via WWW http://rsteib.home.pages.de/