Re: Feature suggestion: Synchronise Gnusae

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca> writes:

> > Storing mail on a IMAP server and using Gnus Agent might work too. 
> 
> Will this be manageable for large collections of e-mail messages,
> e.g. 300 groups containing about 100 megabytes?  In other words, can I
> put my entire archive of e-mail into an IMAP server on machine A, then
> slurp it all into the agent on machine B, and then have access to the
> e-mail on either machine with the ability to sync this when machine B
> is connected to the net?  Or will it be horribly slow?

The first sync will of course be quite slow, but after that I think it
should be OK.  My main IMAP spool is around 700MB, but I'm not using
the agent (all my machines are connected to internet).  The Agent
isn't streamlined for IMAP users though (it's hardcoded that read
articles aren't downloaded, and some other things) so you'll probably
need some tinkering with it to make it really useful.

(I've got some patches for this, but it changes the default behaviour
of Agent and breaks backwards compatibility so I haven't commited
them.)