Re: synchronizing desktop machine and laptop

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu> writes:

> This posting is only partly related to Gnus, but since Lars has recently
> gotten a new laptop I thought I would ask here.
> 
> What method are people using to keep their laptop and desktop machine in
> synch?
> 
> I've been investigating Coda recently (http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/) and
> that seems the best method so far.
> 
> But imagine if I use Gnus on my laptop in unplugged mode.  When I get
> home and put the laptop back on my network, any changed files are
> replicated back to my desktop machine.  But now it seems that the message
> I wrote will be sent twice (once from each machine).

  Since I am never without my laptop, I just use NFS and symlink from my
various home machines (mixture of linux, solaris, and hp/ux) onto the
laptop via 'amd'.  I also do the same on our even broader mix of machines
at work.  This way no matter what machine I'm logged into, gnus does the
right thing.

  Symlinks are: .gnus.el, .newsrc, .newsrc.eld, .nnmail-cache, Mail, and
News - works really well.

> Does anyone know about IMAP disconnected mode (does nnimap even support
> that)?  How does that compare to nnagent?

  Haven't tried it, although just plain imap works pretty well.  I'm
pushing really hard on our mis people to switch.

-bp