From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83508 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Julien Cubizolles Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sharing gnus between 2 machines Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:03:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87txk4t2pi.fsf@free.fr> References: <871u7fbmtv.fsf@free.fr> <87y59ltlpx.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373367891 20450 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2013 11:04:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:04:51 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31768@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jul 09 13:04:51 2013 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 1UwViz-0007FD-89 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:04:49 +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 1UwVi4-0007xe-C6; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:03:52 -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 1UwVi2-0007xV-Sy for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:03:50 -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 1UwVi1-0005VT-3u for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:03:50 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.4]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UwVhz-0005Ft-CI for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:03:47 +0200 Original-Received: from hereafter (unknown [37.160.59.127]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1827F4C81F4 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 13:03:41 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87y59ltlpx.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:11:38 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83508 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: > I have similar objectives. My setup is as follows: I use nnimap with > the gnus agent. I synchronise three computers (desktops in office and > home and laptop) using unison. My typical usage is to have the agent > fetch all emails on a desktop, then synchronise the file system with the > laptop, head out and use gnus unplugged (e.g. on the train to/from > work), connect the laptop at the other destination, synchronise again, > start up gnus on the desktop and send all queued messages. Repeat whole > process at the other end of the day... That's what I'm doing at the moment. > The only weakness in this system is that the agent gets confused every > so often, especially it seems if I use one of my phones or tablets to > access my work server (with is MS based unfortunately). I then need to > empty the agent cache and re-load all emails. What confusion does the agent exhibit. For me, it's mostly the read/old/expired statuses that gets messed up. > I do not download all folders from my mail servers, however. I also do > not use the registry as I haven't figure this out yet... ;-) I'll try without the registry for a while, and see if it improves. Julien.