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Re: Moving from local storage to imap: advice wanted


From: Lowell Gilbert
Subject: Re: Moving from local storage to imap: advice wanted
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 19:59:33 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix)

Rasmus Villemoes <burner+usenet@imf.au.dk> writes:

> (a) imap access, of course
> (b) automatic backup
> (c) a way to upload all my old messages
> (d) at least 10GB storage
>
> It's not hard to find places offering (a) and (d). (b) is not that
> advertised, but I suppose that it's implicit when offering any kind of
> storage. Also, I think offlineimap may be used to dump snapshots
> periodically. What I'd like to know is if anyone has experience with
> (c). 

No problem; you just create an ephemeral group and copy the messages
from there into an IMAP group.

And as far as backups, check into how you access them.  If it could take
a couple of days for someone to retrieve your files from tape, that
might be a concern.

> Somewhat related: Assuming I find such a place, I of course need to
> change my Gnus configuration. There are lots of tutorials on how to
> fetch mail from an imap server. But how do I manage to keep track of
> outgoing messages? Is the best way simply to Bcc all mail and news to
> oneself, and then use the From-address to filter it into appropriate
> folders? It feels kind of backwards.

How do you do it now?  IMAP doesn't change anything about how you send
mail, only how you access your received mail.  Personally, I use an
"FCC" header, which is part of message-mode, not Gnus.

Good luck.



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