From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81364 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sharing setup between different computers? Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:06:41 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87ehty1ory.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <874nuumrh9.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329163661 7500 80.91.229.3 (13 Feb 2012 20:07:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:07:41 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29644@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Feb 13 21:07:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx2BV-0000mJ-OS for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:07:38 +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 1Rx2Au-00059s-Hf; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:07:00 -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 1Rx2At-00059h-G2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:06:59 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx2As-0003sN-1e for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:06:59 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx2Aq-00081W-Kl for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:06:56 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx2An-00006H-8x for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:06:53 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:06:53 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:06:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6M6GcutrCkVLeetN4glIXfwUfhY= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81364 Archived-At: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:02:42 +0100 Michael Heerdegen wrote: MH> I currently ply between two locations in Germany. At both locations, I MH> have a desktop computer and read news via Gnus. I want to transfer my MH> setup including which groups I have subscribed, which articles I have MH> read, which ones I have ticked etc, between the two locations. MH> Is it safe to just copy .newsrc.eld and .newsrc (besides the gnus init MH> file, of course) from one computer to the other, or can this lead to MH> problems? Or is there maybe a better method? If you're sure you'll never read mail on a machine and THEN synchronize it, it will work. Just make sure both computers have the same server and parameter setup. gnus-sync.el could also help you with this. It synchronizes just subscriptions and marks using a file or a remote CouchDB server. Ted