Re: gnus-cloud work

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:42:22 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote: 
>
> EA> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:55:18 -0400 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 
>>> 
> TZ> * verify uploads
> TZ> * download cloud data back
> TZ> * use PGP instead of Base64+gzip (could be a choice... but I would
> TZ> * really prefer to make it secure by default and make insecure storage an explicit user choice)
>>> 
>>> ...done
>>> 
> TZ> * get Steinar, Dave, and others to try this out...
> TZ> * send salmon hunter drones after Lars to get him back on this :)
> TZ> * when a server is selected as the CLOUD-HOST, maybe save that
> TZ> choice? but I'm not sure if the choice should be persisted in
> TZ> `gnus-cloud-method' or in the newsrc.eld.
> TZ> * notice when the cloud data changes (maybe some IMAP magic can do it... but could just be done explicitly for now)
>>> 
>>> ...not done
>>> 
>>> I also changed some headers etc.
>
> EA> Hey I think I'm confused about what this is meant to do. My original
> EA> understanding was that this was for syncing NNTP marks between machines,
> EA> using an IMAP server. Is that what this is for?
>
> Yes. Plus files, optionally.
>
> EA> I have a laptop and a desktop. Both are running this branch, and on both
> EA> I've marked the same IMAP server as "cloud-sync".
>
> EA> But what happens now?
>
> Upload your first cloud pack from one machine and see if that works:
> `gnus-cloud-upload-data'

Oops, my misunderstanding was that I hadn't marked both a server-to-sync
and a server-to-keep-syncs. Once I'd done both "i" and "I", things
started going.

Initial bumps:

gnus-cloud-synced-files doesn't match up with my files (I'd recommend
the default use gnus-user-directory), and as the FIXME notes, I wasn't
able to redefine it to use a different (:directory...) syntax. I set it
directly to two files, and it was fine.

Weirdly, the (defvar gnus-cloud-sequence 1) didn't "work". The first
time I used it, gnus-cloud-sequence was nil, and so
`gnus-cloud-upload-data' threw an error in the call to `format'. I had
to explicitly setq the var to 1.

After that everything worked fine. I haven't yet gone to the office and
tried to download the data on the other machine.

Eric