Re: Gnus Own-Cloudy?

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> But I would have thought that the active values for each group are
> stored on disk, so if you don't copy those over as well, Gnus will get
> confused about how many messages are in each group.

For accessing an IMAP server, there's no need to sync Gnus data.  That's
sort of the point of using IMAP for your mail:  multiple clients can
independently access it and stay in sync with each other via the IMAP
server.

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

> but as you have a local server on each system, they may be numbering
> messages differently depending on how they synchronise with the real
> IMAP server.  As a result, the counts and various data structures stored
> within the newsrc.eld file may not be consistent between machines?

Right.  When you are accessing two different IMAP servers (even if
they are synced behind the scenes), you definitely don't want to
sync the Gnus data, since article numbers won't match.  For example, if
you tick an article in once Gnus instance, a different article may show
up as ticked in the other.

Dan