Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:56:52 -0800 Frank Fredstone <[email protected]> wrote: > > FF> I use dovecot imapd with both an mbox for INBOX and maildir for other > FF> folders, and I use sieve to split email into maildir folders. > > FF> In .gnus.el I have: > > FF> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > FF> '((nnml "mail") > FF> (nnimap "asdf" > FF> (nnimap-address "localhost") > FF> (nnimap-server-port 143) > FF> (nnimap-stream network)))) > > FF> and I have left over from before I was using imap: > > FF> (setq nnmail-split-methods > FF> '(("junk" "Subject:.*urgent") > FF> ... > FF> ("inbox" ""))) > > FF> It used to be that messages in my imap inbox were stored in > nnimap+asdf:INBOX. > > FF> Now, the first time I ran gnus from emacs 23, it moved all messages > FF> from nnimap+asdf:INBOX to nnml+mail:inbox, or in other words it > FF> emptied /var/spool/user, and stored them in nnml+mail:inbox, so my > FF> imap inbox is not empty. > > FF> I don't remember if I had a reason to keep the nnml secondary select > FF> method. Should I just remove it and remove the nnmail split methods, > FF> to get it to ignore /var/spool/user and read nnimap+asdf:INBOX > FF> instead? > > FF> Also, if I make a copy of my ~/Mail directory that email creates, can > FF> I restore my email from it if I screw something up, i.e. can I use > FF> gnus to read the email from the copied directory and put it back into > FF> my imap store? > > You can set nnimap-split-inbox to something else if you want INBOX to be > left alone. Then you can keep your nnmail-split-methods. You can also > specify different (or nil) split rules per nnimap server (see > `nnimap-split-rule') so it won't fall back to nnmail-split-methods IIRC.
Okay, nnimap-split-inbox was unset, which I read means it will not do splitting, which is what I want. I've tried setting it: (setq nnimap-split-inbox "INBOX") Then it still emptied my mbox file, but I don't know what it did with the email. Since I can't be losing email, I will stick with emacs 22 for a while I guess, while I try to figure out a way to experiment with this without losing real email. > You can read mail from any valid directory or file as you'd expect. > Just make a new backend, nnmail or nnmaildir or any other that makes > sense. Within each backend, you can visit a group and copy or move > articles to another backend+group. Thanks. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
