Re: which gnus files used to hold gnus state? (for manual)

[kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> So, it boils down to this: if you transfer .newsrc.eld, you got to
>> transfer the whole hog.  If you abstain from .newsrc.eld, then you
>> can do the some-groups trick alluded to for nnml and nnfolder (and
>> probably nnmaildir).
>
> But your seen marks are in .newsrc.eld.  If you don't include it, how
> will you know which articles have been read?

Whoops.  I guess that means that the seen marks should be written to
the .marks/*.mrk files.  WDYT?

>> Stuff from cache and agent aren't mentioned in .newsrc.eld, so there
>> is no problem.
>
> There's no problem so long as the two machines are sharing the same
> servers.  The article files in both the agent and the cache are named
> after the article number.  You'll get garbage if you try to use these
> files with any server except the one from which they were fetched (I
> realize that this isn't what you proposed.  I just want to make sure
> that anyone reading this understands).

Righty-oh.  Thanks for pointing this out.
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