From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52794 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Owens Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: IMAP: file storage, relation to agent, and what the server does? Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 17:23:29 -0700 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053649362 22668 80.91.224.249 (23 May 2003 00:22:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 00:22:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1338@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 23 02:22:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19J0KW-0005tR-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 02:22:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19J0LX-0005zT-00; Thu, 22 May 2003 19:23:43 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19J0LR-0005zO-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 22 May 2003 19:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 12233 invoked by alias); 23 May 2003 00:23:37 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12228 invoked from network); 23 May 2003 00:23:37 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 23 May 2003 00:23:37 -0000 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19J0JX-0005pS-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 02:21:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19J0JU-0005oe-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 02:21:36 +0200 Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wRFlS/LubOjDNsQATuUO33pQtZE= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52794 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52794 Simple question: I'd like to leave my mail files (groups) on the IMAP server. However, I'm happy with local cached versions on my laptop, and I assume I can mark what I want cached and then allow gnus to sync before I unplug. I don't want to have to sync all the mail groups, and I don't think I have to. But how should I set up my mail group files so that a) I can read mail on the server and always be synched; b) I can read mail on my laptop and have a few groups synched? I imagine this is possible and a solved problem; I'm concerned with the gnus settings necessary to point to the right directories and files; I haven't used full-blown IMAP before and am not sure what it magically does for me as far as keeping things synched, and what gnus does, and what I have to do. JDO