From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68462 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Syncing Gnus (was: mail group by author?) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:27:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87fxgvnz4k.fsf@escher.local.home> <86myajqjec.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d4bb3ba7.fsf@engster.org> <87skk7wq2y.fsf@uninett.no> <87hc0nwlb5.fsf@uninett.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239974932 13113 80.91.229.12 (17 Apr 2009 13:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:28:52 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16897@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 17 15:30:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Luo8h-0004Tm-M7 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:29:55 +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 1Luo6f-0002oW-7g; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:27:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Luo6d-0002o7-Ha for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:27:47 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Luo6V-00039b-N4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:27:47 -0500 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Luo6v-0002iS-00 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:28:05 +0200 Original-Received: from kafka.physik3.gwdg.de ([134.76.92.48] helo=kafka) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Luo6T-0003eT-UD for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:27:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87hc0nwlb5.fsf@uninett.no> (Vegard Vesterheim's message of "Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:50:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68462 Archived-At: Vegard Vesterheim writes: > I'm intrigued about the possibility for virtual folders in > archiveopteryx, I hope to get a chance to try this soon. Please let me know how this works out for you. > I typically use several different computers, so I prefer a server-side > solution. One of my biggest gripes about Gnus is that some > meta-information (.newsrc.eld etc.) is stored on the client instead of > the server. This means that the count of unread messages typically is > wrong when I move from one computer to another. > > Yes, I know about solutions like this: > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusSync Maybe the following is helpful: - Tramp: In your .emacs set: (require 'gnus-load) (require 'message) (setq gnus-startup-file "/scpx:login@server:.newsrc") (setq message-directory "/scpx:login@server:Mail/") (setq gnus-directory "/scpx:login@server:News/") Disclaimer: I've only tested this very shortly, so I'm not sure if this is working correctly. To speed this up, set up a ssh master connection beforehand (e.g. do "ssh -f -N -M login@server" in the shell and specify ControlMaster for the host in your .ssh/config). Otherwise, it will not only be dead slow, but might also raise some administrator's eyebrows. One day there might even be IMAP storage in Tramp. :-) - sshfs: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html Mount single directory using sshfs and again set gnus-startup-file, message-directory and gnus-directory accordingly. Never tried this, but I don't see why this shouldn't just work. Needless to say, both these methods are slower than just using rsync, which is why I prefer the latter. -David