Re: road warrior trying to simplify a mail setup

[David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net>]

>>>>> On 07 Feb 2003 10:14:40 -0800, merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) said:

>>>>> "David" == David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:
David> For what it's worth, I keep my .News and .newsrc* files in synch
David> between several machines.  I prefer unison to rsync (unison is based
David> on rsync protocol, but provides bidirectional synchronization and
David> offers a merging capability (by calling emacs, of course :-).

> How does that work for offline delivery and agent mode?

In my case it's orthogonal.  Delivery goes into an IMAP server at work
which I can get to from three different places when I am at work: a
w2k laptop, a relatively standalone linux box, or any number of UNIX
(Sun, Linux, SGI) machines which access my home directory via AFS.  I
can also get to it via VPN or ssh from my home system but I choose not
to do that.  I use unison to keep all three work systems in sync.  In
the worst case, I read mail on one system and then on another without
sync'ing.  In that case, I lose out on updates to score files and
.newsrc.eld which is mostly minor annoyance.  I do not keep the
cache/agent in sync on them.  Since I only really use the agent on my
laptop it's not worth copying it over to the others.  I'm not sure
what you mean by off line delivery.  When I'm off line, the mail gets
delivered as it always does but I can't see it until I'm back on line.
But I know that you know that so there must be something else to the
term.

Thanks,
-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net