Re: No Gnus feature request: simpler file structure for synching

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

John Owens <jowens@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> Let's say I read news from the same server from my two clients, and
> read mail ONLY using the nnimap back end. What needs to be synched for
>
> - the news part of my use; and
> - the nnimap part of my use?

That's the problem: in ~/.newsrc.eld you find information about all
servers.  But the .newsrc.eld file is the only file that records which
NNTP groups have been read.

That's why I suggested to port the .marks code to nntp.el; then you
would have a file for each NNTP server which records only which
articles have been read on that NNTP server.  That file could then be
synced.

Then you'd sync nothing for the nnimap part (all state is kept on the
server, except for the list of groups you subscribe to -- but that
doesn't change so often), and the single file for the nntp part.

Kai