Re: Reading mail with GNUS and other mail clients

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Jose Romildo Malaquias <romildo@uber.com.br> writes:

> I (the original poster) want the marks to be updated, as Kay explained,
> when reading messages with another mail client, and also I want the
> other mail client should also see as read the messages read with
> gnus.
>
> Maybe it would be feasible to write some script to be run when
> starting/exiting gnus (or mutt) that check the messages that
> were read with gnus (or mutt) and automatically mark them as
> read in mutt (or gnus). Would that script be easy to write?
> What do you gnus user think about this idea?

Recent Gnusae have a .marks file in each groups which keeps the
marks, and that file should be fairly easy to manipulate.

But my guts tell me that this is a fragile solution, and if I were
you, I would try other things first.

First of all, an IMAP server should be easy to install on a Linux
machine, and it would do just what you need (you could use any client
which groks IMAP, not just Gnus and mutt -- Mozilla would also
work).  The only problem with the IMAP server is that you need to get
the messages into the server in the first place.  For this you
normally have to configure your MTA (exim, postfix, sendmail, ...)
correctly.  But Cyrus (an IMAP server) also provides the possibility
to pipe messages through the `deliver' program that comes with Cyrus,
and that will also put them into the server.  So you have a fallback
if the configuration of the MTA is too difficult.

The second idea is nnmaildir.  Maybe it Just Works, with no additional
configuration required.  But I don't know.  The potential problem here
is the format in which marks are stored.  It is not standardized I
think, so you might have to read up on it for a while, or ask an
nnmaildir expert.

kai
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