From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: More emacs instances Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:39:04 +0800 Message-ID: <87wrqy72o7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <8762ze8w6k.fsf@mean.albasani.net> <87wrrutus5.fsf@mean.albasani.net> <87hbirbw01.fsf@pellet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283823607 27944 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2010 01:40:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 01:40:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 07 03:40:07 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsnAC-0003PC-BZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:40:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34884 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsnA8-0006UI-Ft for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44191 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Osn9h-0006PT-94 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Osn9a-0005gm-Bo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38166) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Osn9a-0005gI-0G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:39:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Osn9W-0003CB-Lk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:39:14 +0200 Original-Received: from 123.121.226.238 ([123.121.226.238]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:39:14 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 123.121.226.238 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:39:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.121.226.238 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iYBnCy+iecY8hPypj0K8qUwR9mA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74910 Archived-At: On Tue, Sep 07 2010, Andrea Crotti wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> >> I know this topic is straying a bit and perhaps should be on the gnus >> list, but since we're talking about it… >> >> I am using gmail POP and want to switch to IMAP, using offlineimap. >> Since I've been deleting mails from the server under POP usage, I've >> only got the most recent month or so of mail on the gmail servers. >> >> Now if I switch to a setup where gnus and offlineimap use the same >> maildir for their mail, that means my old messages will be deleted (or >> at least can't be stored in that maildir) when I switch to IMAP, right? >> But if offlineimap populates a maildir, and gnus uses it as a mail >> source to slurp up its messages, does that mean that from here on out >> I'll have two copies of all my mail: offlineimap's maildir, and gnus' >> group folders? Is it possible to delete the retrieved messages from >> offlineimap's maildir, without confusing offlineimap? >> >> I hope this makes sense! I'm sure there's a simple solution, and I'll be >> backing up thoroughly before I mess with it, but I'd love to hear how >> this works for other people… >> >> Thanks! >> Eric >> > > > Mm I don't see why you would have two copies, if offlineimap is > bidirectional and if gnus is not behaving too crazily the changes you do > to your Maildir will be also written on the remote imap server. > > Is that correct? > Another way is to have an imap server running locally on the machine and > that should be even easier... Thanks! Mostly this was a confusion about the way imap and gnus work together. I was thinking that I could still use my local group-splitting setup, but of course if you're using imap properly the splitting is done on the server. Might be more work than I'm willing to put in at this point...