Re: Incorporating old mail?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Kjell M. Myksvoll <kjell.myksvoll@telenor.com> writes:

> I tried the description given in the Gnus documentation - created a
> doc-folder of the mbox file with the "G f" command, marked it with 
> "M P b" and tried to respool the messages with "B r". Unfortunatly
> nnimap did not showed up as one of the possible backends one could
> respool to.

No, "B r" are hard-coded to only work with backends based on nnmail.

> Is there any other way to incorporate old mail in mbox format into
> nnimap?

Yes. Move all articles from the mbox to `nnimap-split-inbox' and make
sure they are unread, they will be split according to your
`nnimap-split-rule' next time you fetch new mail.