Re: Keeping multiple imap-and-nntp-based gnusae in sync

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> I'm using a very recent version of Oort to access my imap and nntp
> servers on a central host.  I have three installations of Oort on three
> separate machines, each Oort instance configured identically to point to
> the same imap and nntp servers.  I do this because during the course of
> a day, I work from each of these three machines.
>
> All this works fine, except for the inconvenient fact that my marks and
> "read" statuses are local to each machine.  Therefore, I find myself
> re-reading and re-marking messages when I go from machine to machine.
>
> Has anyone invented a procedure for sync-ing marks and article statuses
> across multiple versions of gnus?

For IMAP, the server should keep all state, for NNTP you have to sync
.newsrc.eld or similar.  If the IMAP server doesn't support
client-specific flags, Gnus specific flags (e.g., expired and dormant)
won't be synced either.  Read flags should definitely be synced
though.  Does it help to press M-g before entering a group?  Did you
mean they weren't synced in the group buffer (unread article count),
or in the summary buffer?  The former is a known bug, but the latter
should work.