From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69058 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "No such article" error Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:39:51 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87iqf3gmko.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87ws3pji1t.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87hbutb0wa.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87ws3miw5m.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254149623 31941 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2009 14:53:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:53:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17475@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 28 16:53:36 2009 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 4.50) id 1MsHbb-0003zu-Sq for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:53:36 +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 1MsHah-0000Vc-J8; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:52:39 -0500 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 1MsHOi-0000SW-3k for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:40:16 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MsHOh-0006AK-0T for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:40:16 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MsHPJ-0002SI-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:40:53 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MsHOf-0007C3-ER for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:40:13 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:40:13 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:40:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 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" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PIuY5pZ8tYNT3212kq1vTQQmaCU= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69058 Archived-At: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:11:10 +0200 Steinar Bang wrote: >>>>>> Ted Zlatanov : >> Maildirs can't be rsynced IIRC. You need to use a program that does it. SB> Sure you can rsync. The --fuzzy flag is your friend: SB> SB> SB> The problem for rsync, is that the file name is changed when the state SB> of the message is changed. But the fuzzy flag looks for similar-looking SB> name and if everything else matches, takes it as the same file. SB> (FWIW you could always rsync. rsync is pretty good at mirroring file SB> system hierarchies. It just wouldn't neccessarily be efficient network SB> wise. It would have to delete the file with the old file name, and SB> retransfer the new one, when a message's status is changed) Sorry. I was thinking of the qmail queue, which stores files named the same as their inode number, which can't be rsynced easily. Maildirs are not related to this (except I first used them when I started using qmail, so I mistakenly connected them to the qmail queue). Ted