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List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85780 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Dan Christensen writes: > >> Eric Abrahamsen writes: >> >>> 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. >> >> For accessing an IMAP server, there's no need to sync Gnus data. That's >> sort of the point of using IMAP for your mail: multiple clients can >> independently access it and stay in sync with each other via the IMAP >> server. >> >> Eric S Fraga writes: >> >>> but as you have a local server on each system, they may be numbering >>> messages differently depending on how they synchronise with the real >>> IMAP server. As a result, the counts and various data structures stored >>> within the newsrc.eld file may not be consistent between machines? >> >> Right. When you are accessing two different IMAP servers (even if >> they are synced behind the scenes), you definitely don't want to >> sync the Gnus data, since article numbers won't match. For example, if >> you tick an article in once Gnus instance, a different article may show >> up as ticked in the other. > > Okay, I've received (and marked) a bunch of mail on the desktop (now my > primary machine), after not having touched the laptop for a day. Right > now the desktop's Gnus installation is showing a single unread message > in one account's INBOX. I haven't copied any Gnus-related files from > desktop to laptop. > > Now I go to my laptop, boot, run isync, then start Gnus. I get the > unread counts that I would expect if Gnus was keeping track of which > messages I'd read _on this machine_. Except for the sent mail folder of > one of my accounts, which shows 3000+ unread messages, a number that > doesn't seem to correspond to anything. > > The UIDs seem to remain the same -- at least my earlier ticked messages > are the same on both machines. But I'm having another issue with > something in my mail chain (gmail <-> isync <-> dovecot <-> gnus) > re-setting UIDs for previously received messages, something that I just > reported yesterday on the isync mailing list[1]. I can see now that, after > I did a couple of syncs concurrently on both machines, mail I received > on the laptop is not appearing on the desktop -- presumably because the > UID of the message was changed, then incremented, but the UIDVALIDITY of > the folder was untouched. This is a pretty big bug, but in which I'm not > sure. (This was a false alarm, the mail was just getting split to a group I wasn't subscribed to on the other machine. The UIDs are still getting changed, though.)