Re: Gnus Own-Cloudy?

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

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?

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.


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