From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74800 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: elp-wrapper sneaking into .newsrc.eld Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:56:29 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <8739qay60y.fsf@dod.no> References: <874oarhp3v.fsf@uwo.ca> <87mxojx4ky.fsf@uwo.ca> <87tyir2404.fsf@uwo.ca> <1sr5dvp7nl.fsf@voll.uninett.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291669024 7837 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2010 20:57:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 20:57:04 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23156@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 06 21:56:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPi79-0001dj-1w for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:56:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PPi76-0007NT-N9; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:56:48 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PPi75-0007NB-Eo for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:56:47 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PPi74-0008II-7f for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:56:47 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PPi73-00072K-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:56:45 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPi73-0001aU-3H for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:56:45 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.204.33.getinternet.no ([84.208.204.33]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:56:45 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.204.33.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:56:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.204.33.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AitDsYS4McXQDaXP6NXZbf4Jo78= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74800 Archived-At: >>>>> Vegard Vesterheim : > I would love to see a simpler mechanism for getting Gnus running on a > new user account. There has been some ideas floating around about > storing some info on the IMAP server (using IMAP as a file storage > with tramp), but I am not sure how well this works in practise. Can > anyone share any details about how to do this? Yes. I use Ted's gnus-sync.el (which is in git gnus). Here's my setup, from .gnus.el: At the start of the file I've got this (I don't know if it was required to have it at the start of the file, or if I just put it there so I would remember to remove it at a later stage): (require 'gnus-sync) Further down in the file, I've got this: ;; Synching reads in nntp groups across machines (setq gnus-sync-backend "/ssh:myuser@hjemme.mydomain:News/gnussync" ; will use Tramp+EPA if loaded gnus-sync-global-vars `(gnus-newsrc-last-checked-date) gnus-sync-newsrc-groups `("nntp" "nnrss") gnus-sync-newsrc-vars `(read marks)) I decided to use tramp+ssh instead of tramp+imap, which is a decision I now regret.