Re: gnus-cloud work

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Tue Sep 20 2016, Ted Zlatanov <tzz-AT-lifelogs.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:06:32 -0700 Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote: 
>
> DA> on Mon Aug 01 2016, Ted Zlatanov <tzz-AT-lifelogs.com> wrote:
>
>>> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:35:26 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 
>>> 
> SB> How do you plan to handle Emacs-Cloud cleanup? With 10 messages in it,
> SB> my folder is using sligthly less than 1MB of disk... not much, but with
> SB> frequent saves that could add up.
>>> 
>>> It's not really a concern, but you can set up Gnus total expiry if you
>>> are worried.
>
> DA> Is emacs-25.1 recent enough to have the latest gnus-cloud support?
>
> Gnus is part of the Emacs source code. But the work I did in July was
> too late for the 25.1 release (yes, that's a pain). You should just
> check out and compile the latest master, it's really easy.
>
> DA> What are the steps to try it out?
>
> The docs have been added:
>
> (info "(gnus) The Gnus Cloud")

Nice; after a few inexplicable glitches I got it set up!  I still need to try
Gnus on another machine to observe the seamless continuity... :-)

One thing I notice now is that `G' in my *Group* buffer now takes a long
time and sometimes appears to truly hang here:

Debugger entered: ("Quit")
  nnimap-wait-for-response(167)
  nnimap-request-list("imap.gmail.com")
  gnus-request-list((nnimap "imap.gmail.com" (nnimap-server-port 993) (nnimap-stream ssl)))
  gnus-read-active-file-1((nnimap "imap.gmail.com" (nnimap-server-port 993) (nnimap-stream ssl)) nil)
  gnus-get-unread-articles(7 nil nil)
  gnus-group-get-new-news(nil)
  funcall-interactively(gnus-group-get-new-news nil)
  call-interactively(gnus-group-get-new-news nil nil)
  command-execute(gnus-group-get-new-news)

Admittedly, I am now using GMail directly to store marks whereas all my
other mail *was* going through my local dovecot instance (which I sync
with GMail and another server in the background), but it still seems
like it should be more reliable than this.

The reason I decided to go straight to GMail was that I wasn't sure how
Gnus-Cloud would behave if I happened to put my laptop to sleep before
its changes got sync'd out to the server and started reading mail
elsewhere.  Is there any provision for resolving changes from multiple
sources?

Thannks,

-- 
-Dave