Re: Question about mail archive

[Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> For synchronizing email across several machines, I used to sync
> ~/Mail, ~/News, ~/.newsrc* and ~/.nnmail-cache.  It was important to
> take care about the direction, that's all.  Using rsync, this was
> reasonably fast.  (I had 200 or 300 MB of mail back then, and a no-op
> sync (when both directories were equal) took less than two minutes
> over a 64k ISDN line.)

Hm, I didn't ask this, so maybe it is irrelevant -- but how did you
sync this exactly?  Assume you have an nnml directory ~/Mail/emacs on
two machines, both machines get mail.  Doesn't that mean that for each
filename a mail exists on either machine -- and there is no guaranty
that the file contains the same mail?  Then sync would by impossible,
right?

Alex.
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