Re: gnus-sync.el v2

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:57:45 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 

>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
>> There's built-in security in CouchDB.  I am OK with the defaults but
>> CouchDB authentication is pluggable and you can configure things any
>> way you like.

SB> I wasn't just thinking of the authentication.  I was thinking against
SB> robustness against attacks when exposed on the Internet.

That's a moving target I can't chase.  There is plenty of software to
handle this transparently (CouchDB is just a web server, after all) and
it's really, REALLY hard to do it well.

>> No, the servers are not synced.  I don't think it's possible because
>> they are in the user configuration, not in newsrc.eld necessarily.  I
>> could sync just the foreign servers but that's even more complicated
>> between machines with possibly identical server names.

SB> Hm... ok... (not sure I understand why this is more complicated than the
SB> other stuff.  Will look at it later).

I am not looking to synchronize the Gnus configuration, only the
topics, subscriptions, and marks.  It's much riskier to sync
the configuration, both in terms of bugs and support, and in terms of
security.  So for me it's not a priority.

>>>> The biggest piece missing is username+password validation and I'm
>>>> working on that.

SB> One thing that will good is nice behaviour when the server can't be
SB> contacted, ie. not hanging for a long time waiting for the server, and
SB> no marks lost when the server can be contacted at a later stage.

SB> This would be important when coexisting with the agent.

Right now it hangs hard but marks are never lost.

Ted