Re: Gnus Own-Cloudy?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

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

> On Tuesday, 10 Feb 2015 at 14:05, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> I never paid any attention to progress of Cloudy Gnus, or whatever we're
>> calling it, but then I got a desktop along with my laptop, and suddenly
>> I'm VERY INTERESTED.
>>
>> Before Cloudy is a reality, have any of you had success simply using
>> rsync between two machines?
>
> I use unison to keep 4 systems (two desktops, a laptop and a handheld
> computer, all running some version of Linux) in sync.  Unison is based
> on rsync but is a symmetric synchronisation instead of
> one-directional.  I hope that makes sense...
>
> I am not sure why you see large unread counts.  I do not.  You do have
> to be quite rigorous in the synchronisation and avoid using gnus on two
> systems simultaneously, however.

Thanks for the note! I'm quite sure I'm not using both systems at
once -- every few days I spend the day out with the laptop, and it's a
little rigmarole of updating my ~/org git repository, rsync'ing a few
other directories, and then doing my best with Gnus.

The first thing that happens is that when Gnus starts up all my nnimap
servers appear offline (or at least whatever it means when I get an
asterisk instead of unread counts next to all the group names).
Refreshing Gnus after that gives me unread counts that might be
reasonable if I *hadn't* sync'ed over the most recent marks, but for
some groups it's in the thousands, which clearly isn't right.

Is there anything you're sync'ing beyond the files/directories that I
mentioned in my first post?

Thanks!
Eric