From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78297 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Tutorials and worg like site for gnus. Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:06:57 +0100 Message-ID: <87hbah4wq6.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87vcz0sqjg.fsf@live.com> <87lizwa1s8.fsf@bifteki.lan> <87wrjfjkka.fsf@live.com> <87fwq32hpc.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87wrjd7qsi.fsf@live.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301684857 20471 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 19:07:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 19:07:37 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26605@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 01 21:07:33 2011 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 1Q5jgx-00023J-3z for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:07:31 +0200 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 1Q5jgX-0008N2-LE; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:07:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5jgV-0008Mp-UY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5jgU-00041F-E9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from vscane-a2.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.42]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5jgS-000387-A7 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:07:00 +0200 Original-Received: from [85.210.134.252] (helo=localhost) by vscane-a.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5jgP-00076a-UK for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:06:58 +0100 X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87wrjd7qsi.fsf@live.com> (Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala's message of "Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:46:53 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78297 Archived-At: Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala writes: > Hi Eric, > Thanks for the response., You're welcome. > Eric S Fraga writes: >> Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala writes: >> >> [...] >> >>> Thanks for explanation. It clears out few questions out of many I have. >>> My quest is to have all my mails (from different imap/pop sources) stored >>> locally on my lab computer(which is up & connected Internet 24hours) and >>> sync(possibly with git vc) them to my laptop. >> >> Although I don't do this any more (relying instead on gnus agent), I did >> have a setup similar to what you are describing. My approach was to use >> fetchmail with mailfilter/maildrop to download emails from various >> sources and place them all in a number of maildir folders. These were >> then read using gnus or mutt or wl or ... > > could you explain why you moved away from your erlier configuration.? As mentioned later in my response, gnus IMAP support improved dramatically. For other reasons, I was finding it more attractive to use the IMAP server(s) as my mail store instead of downloading everything to my own systems. One reason is my increased use of email on my phone (Android) and wanting to keep email access as simple as possible. IMAP seemed the way to go. I should add that I have also moved to a inbox zero approach to my email so I don't actually want to keep emails for very long at all. This doesn't really affect my move from maildir to IMAP but did motivate me to move to gnus a while back as it has a mode of operation that is better suited to that approach, especially with automatic expiry of mail. >> >> The different machines I had were kept in sync using unison so there was >> no single main system -- they (office, home, laptop) were all identical. > > thanks for mentioning unision, seems better option than git. if it is > not private, would be great if you can post your syncing setup. Nothing really out of the ordinary. I keep all the files I want synced between computers (and that used to include my full email store) in a sub-tree called "synced". I then simply unison synced remotehost:synced when I'm done working on the local system. When I start working on any of my systems, the first thing I do is synchronise using the same command, work away, and then synchronise again before turning off the computer. This applies to my home and laptop systems. The synced sub-tree includes all my gnus related files (cache, agent, scores, newsrc.eld, ...). My synced sub-tree is about 2GB (maybe more: it's been a while since I checked) but the amount of data needed to synchronise at any given point is obviously usually much much smaller. I do use git, however, for many other things, typically self-contained projects where revision history is necessary or useful. I do not synchronise git directories using unison as you end up with a confused git repository in my experience. In any case, git is not really suitable for email unless you really want to have a revision history for all your emails (which would seem excessive IMO). >> This worked very well; I moved to IMAP with gnus agent when gnus IMAP >> support improved so dramatically in the past 6 months! (Thanks Lars et >> al.) > > I follow the emacs bzr HEAD. so I am having developemental version of > gnus. so I would try gnus agent for IMAP. Do try! -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.16