Re: How to merge two gnus mail folders

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, May 04 2004, Lars Tobias Borsting wrote:

> I am trying to merge to gnus mail folders. One is at home and the other
> is at school, and I want to move my home gnus mail to my school gnus.
>
> I have, say $HOME/Mail/mail/misc/ at both school and home, how can I
> merge these together? I can't just copy the one to the other and just
> give new file names, because gnus keeps some kind of Summary Buffer
> cache somewhere I don't know, so the new merged mail won't show up in
> the summary.

Don't ever touch file on nnml, nnfolder, ... backends from outside
Gnus.  Down this path lies madness.  You need nnmaildir or nnmh.

See the manual for details:

(info "(gnus)Choosing a Mail Back End")
(info "(gnus)Maildir")
(info "(gnus)MH Spool")
(info "(gnus)Comparing Mail Back Ends")

Bye, Reiner.
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