Re: Gnus Own-Cloudy?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Tuesday, 10 Feb 2015 at 18:53, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
> [...]
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>> This is really helpful, thank you. Probably what I should do is simplify
>> my system a little bit, and see if I can get to the root of the problem.
>> I also like to work offline, but I use isync/dovecot for that, instead
>
> Ah, an extra variable!  I don't think it makes sense to synchronise your
> .newsrc.eld if it refers to different IMAP servers?  that is, if you
> have a local copy via isync/dovecot on each system, these are different
> servers (even if synchronised with the real IMAP server)?
>
> And, in fact, I don't see why you would want to synchronise gnus files
> if you have a local IMAP server which is already synchronising?

But I would have thought that the active values for each group are
stored on disk, so if you don't copy those over as well, Gnus will get
confused about how many messages are in each group. My understanding is
that those values are saved, not re-created, isn't that right?

> The problem with gnus, in this context, is that presentation (e.g. order
> of groups, topics etc) is intermixed with the status of individual
> groups so even though you might want to synchronise the presentation
> aspects, you cannot do this without synchronising the interaction with
> the server...  The newsrc.eld file has several functionalities combined
> unfortunately.