Richard Riley <[email protected]> writes: > [email protected] (Nuno J. Silva) writes: > >> Eric S Fraga <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> [email protected] (Nuno J. Silva) writes: >>> >>>> So I've now hit the issue where I have two computers on which I want to >>>> keep gnus stuff on-sync. >>>> >>>> I've tried the simple solution: rsyncing the whole bunch of files (news, >>>> mail, .gnus.el, and some other gnus files. [...] >>>> Unfortunately, this doesn't work as expected: in some mail folders the >>>> unread messages are months old,[...] >> >> What happens is that, after starting gnus, a lot of NOV files get >> changed. >> >> Removing every nov folder (*/.nnmaildir/nov, relative to nnmaildir root) >> before starting gnus forces gnus to regenerate these, what causes a >> slightly long delay but works (that is, now the unread messages are the >> same as in the original gnus setup). [...] > > I tried a plain old sync for a while with gnus and more often that not > things went wrong.
It's sad, I'd really like if it were as simple as a naïve rsync. But at least now I know it's not something weird in my config. > The best way I found is to use offlineimap to sync a local dovecot > server. Since gnus uses the server flags all is dandy. Can you give me some more hints of what would that setup look like? I suppose it requires running an IMAP server (dovecot) on each machine I want to use, and running offlineimap to sync both IMAP servers (equivalent to rsync in the "plain sync" idea). I'm currently using Gnus to fetch e-mails. As offlineimap was designed exactly to sync newly created files, I suppose it will work - I just need to change the mail folders from nnmaildir to dovecot and save the new messages there. What about performance? I suppose it's pretty okay, as the IMAP server is running locally; and I expect offlineimap to take some more time. Many thanks for your reply - it is pointing me towards a *working* solution, and that's what I was looking for :-) -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
