David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:
>> But how about if we just cheat and put all the information on the IMAP
>> server?
>
> I think it's a good idea, but I'd like it even more if this could be
> somehow hooked into some existing framework for storing data remotely,
> and that framework in Emacs is Tramp.
>
> Ted coded IMAP support for Tramp a while ago, but it was removed again
> for reasons I don't know.

I thin the key question here is

  Is what gnus-sync needs just a network filesystem, or something
  special?

If it works with a filesystem, then one can use all sorts of things,
depending on what makes sense.  Some people might want sync but not have
an IMAP account (but then they probably have a news-only use case).  But
IMAP seems like a good place, as many people will already have it set
up.

I think the hard part is the conflict/merge model, for use with clients
in different places.