Re: Migrating IMAP (nnimap) servers?

[Bruce Stephens]

"Bruno Hertz" <spammer.go.home@gmail.com> writes:

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> I'm not totally sure, so additional comments are welcome, but afaik
> all the marks Gnus maintains locally for news are stored as imap
> flags on the server, like read, seen, ticked and even dormant (might
> depend on your Gnus version, though). So just switching servers
> should go alright without further actions in this regard, if the
> flags are migrated, too.

That sounds hopeful.

> What I'm not sure about is what to do with possibly cached articles.
> Maybe somebody else can tell more?

I've not used those (with imap, anyway).  I'd guess that there'd be an
issue with those---presumably it uses some kind of numbering, and
presumably that's the server-specific article number.