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Re: How to recreate groups for nnml mail directory?
From: |
Rud1ger Sch1erz |
Subject: |
Re: How to recreate groups for nnml mail directory? |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:30:21 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) |
CHENG Gao <chenggao@gmail.com> writes:
> Is the old "active" file there?
Well, on this MS Windows XP pro installation this information seems to
be stored in the .newsrc.eld file. I've not found an active file.
> If so, you can copy your old mail dirs
> to ~/Mail (need check to avoid duplicate dir), and add content from old
> active file into your new active file. You can put all old mail dirs to
> a subdir (say oldback), and then you can edit old active file to add
> "oldback." to each group name, and then paste the content into new
> active file, and then you can browse these groups to move messages to
> other group(s) (using 'B m').
Sounds like a lot of work with more than 250 mail dirs. ;-)
I solved the problem now by editing the .newsrc.eld file:
- 'C-u ESC-x shell-command-on-region ls ~/Mail/mail'
(to get listing of my email dirs into the .newsrc.eld file)
- now I wrote a keyboard macro to change the dirnames into group
entries, eg.:
adrian_otto
to
("nnml:mail.adrian_otto" 3 nil nil "nnml:")
- then I used apply-macro-to-region-lines to convert all lines with
dirnames
That did the trick for me. But I still wonder, if there is a simple
gnus command to do this.
Cheers,
Rudiger