Re: Store meta information with backends?

[Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> But this would be nice for other backends, too.  For
> example, suppose I rsync my ~/Mail directory between
> home and work, but at home I'm using a different NNTP
> server, and at home I read my Hotmail mail.

Alternatively, store your mail in ~/imap/ and use IMAP 
at home and at work to read your mail without necessarily
copying all of it over; if the meta-information is kept in
the IMAP back-end, you don't need to synch anything on
these mailboxes, you just us a "longer connection" to the
IMAP daemon.

Storing metainformation with other backends (e.g. nnml) 
obviously helps in the rsync case, but it should also make
it possible to move a group wholesale from one backend to
another, without losing marks/scores/kills/etc.   For
example, if I have an nnml group locally and I want to
"share" it with myself via IMAP, a Group-level command
should migrate everything from the nnml group to a new
nnimap one, without losing state.

> What do you all think?

Yes, please.

        Sean.