From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82454 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Why gnus-sync? Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:30:48 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87objovvfr.fsf@dod.no> References: <87zk3bzmon.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lievzgtu.fsf@lifelogs.com> <874nlhxwrw.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bofpurmb.fsf@lifelogs.com> <0426FE2B-9B5D-42F5-BFF2-1A83F5627C98@boostpro.com> <871uglurcv.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351348343 8950 80.91.229.3 (27 Oct 2012 14:32:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:32:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30720@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Oct 27 16:32:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TS7R8-0004uJ-3W for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:32:30 +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 1TS7Pp-0000Zb-4a; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:31:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TS7Pm-0000ZO-FX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:31:06 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TS7Pk-0006aW-AH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:31:05 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TS7Pi-00019v-6x for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:31:02 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TS7Pl-0003rM-G3 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:31:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 95.169.54.92 ([95.169.54.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:31:05 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by 95.169.54.92 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:31:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 95.169.54.92 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LgE6XDZldYH6dWUjMEEfg5zgKAI= X-Spam-Score: -1.5 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82454 Archived-At: >>>>> Ted Zlatanov : > On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:28:44 -0400 Dave Abrahams wrote: >> Ok. How does the lesync backen behave when I'm offline? Sorry for all >> the questions… > It craps out, but doesn't lose the flags. Well... > They are just not uploaded, and you get an error (the screen > flashes/beeps, not too annoying). ...you can't upload your new marks unless you have fetched the latest from the sync server. So unless you're able to read the sync and keep the gnus process running, the next time you do a sync read and then a get, all of your read messages since the last sync will be gone.