From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: More emacs instances Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:17:59 +0200 Message-ID: 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 1283793550 15309 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2010 17:19:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:19:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 06 19:19:08 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 1OsfLW-00027q-GI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:19:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37504 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsfLV-0003k0-Qj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57666 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsfKn-0003ia-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:18:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsfKk-0000Cu-3r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:18:21 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsfKj-0000CI-Qh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:18:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsfKf-0001fP-4w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:18:13 +0200 Original-Received: from xdsl-89-0-29-117.netcologne.de ([89.0.29.117]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:18:13 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by xdsl-89-0-29-117.netcologne.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:18:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: xdsl-89-0-29-117.netcologne.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:06vDT764Wr+FV8ONScPRbYBjuu8= 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:74899 Archived-At: 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...