From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Synchronizing offlineimap maildir between several computers
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 10:27:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuvvun6n.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87io0sug5h.fsf@free.fr>
Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
> I'm using offlineimap to get Maildir copies of several IMAP accounts
> from Gnus. I need to work from two different computers. At the moment,
> I'm synchronizing the .gnus.el file between the 2 computers through
> unison and relying on offlineimap running on the 2 computers to have the
> Maildirs synchronized with the remote IMAP servers of my mail providers.
>
> When I switch computers, I run unison, start Gnus which calls
> offlineimap.el through a hook. It's basically working fine except that
> until offlineimap has finished the synchronization, the .gnus.el data is
> out of sync with the maildir so I get mostly starred groups.
>
> I'm thinking about having Gnus call unison and offlineimap as
> gnus-before-startup-hook but before I'm messing with it I'm curious
> about what other solutions you have come up with.
I run mbsync (the equivalent of your offlineimap) in the shell, and when
that's done I run Gnus :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-13 2:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-12 10:47 Julien Cubizolles
2016-03-13 2:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2016-03-14 5:28 ` Julien Cubizolles
2016-03-22 14:09 ` Wes Hardaker
2016-04-27 15:22 ` Julien Cubizolles
2016-05-02 23:10 ` Wes Hardaker
2016-05-03 7:47 ` Julien Cubizolles
2016-03-14 21:05 ` Nils Ackermann
2016-03-15 20:57 ` Julien Cubizolles
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