Sharing gnus between 2 machines

Sharing gnus between 2 machines

[Julien Cubizolles]

I'm looking for examples of successful setups of gnus shared between
several machines. Here is what I have so far:

nnimap for two imap servers
nnml on local files
nntp on gwene and gmane

I'm using the registry for splitting and to use links to messages in
Org-mode.

I'm using the agent to run gnus unplugged when I'm using Emacs for
something else as I don't want it to pause everytime gnus checks for
messages. I'm running a cron script running gnus-agent-batch in the
background.


I'm synchronizing 
.newsrc.eld
.gnus.registry.eioio
.gnus.registry.eld
.newsrc-dribble
Mail/
News/

between two machines with unison, mostly to be able to write messages
and read message-lists on my laptop while commuting.

It mostly works, except that quite often, I get messages complaining
about .gnus.registry.eioio that couldn't be opened and then the read
status of messages seems to be lost. It's actually very annoying on 
very active message lists.


I guess I'm not the only one with similar objectives. Could you share
your strategy to accomplish it ?

Thanks,

Julien.


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Re: Sharing gnus between 2 machines

[Teemu Likonen]

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Julien Cubizolles [2013-07-03 19:00:28 +02:00] wrote:

> I get messages complaining about .gnus.registry.eioio that couldn't be
> opened and then the read status of messages seems to be lost.

I remember seeing similar error messages and in my system the cause was
different Emacs (Gnus) versions. They expected different registry
format.

I sync Emacs and Gnus files between two computers too, with Unison. It
works nicely but I avoid editing mail files in both locations at the
same time.

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Re: Sharing gnus between 2 machines

[Julien Cubizolles]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> Julien Cubizolles [2013-07-03 19:00:28 +02:00] wrote:
>
>> I get messages complaining about .gnus.registry.eioio that couldn't be
>> opened and then the read status of messages seems to be lost.
>
> I remember seeing similar error messages and in my system the cause was
> different Emacs (Gnus) versions. They expected different registry
> format.

I have experienced it with the same version of Gnus/Emacs on both
machines. I'd be happy to help debug it though.

> I sync Emacs and Gnus files between two computers too, with Unison. It
> works nicely but I avoid editing mail files in both locations at the
> same time.

Would you mind sending me the relevant parts of your .gnus.el ? 

Thanks,

Julien.


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Re: Sharing gnus between 2 machines

[Teemu Likonen]

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Julien Cubizolles [2013-07-03 22:57:54 +02:00] wrote:

> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
>> I sync Emacs and Gnus files between two computers too, with Unison.
>> It works nicely but I avoid editing mail files in both locations at
>> the same time.
>
> Would you mind sending me the relevant parts of your .gnus.el ?

I synchronize most of my Emacs files with Unison which is packaged in
Debian GNU/Linux 7.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

You had some registry problems which I probably can't help with. I use
registry with these settings:

    (setq-default
     spam-log-to-registry t
     gnus-registry-max-entries 10000
     gnus-registry-track-extra nil
     gnus-refer-article-method '(current (nnregistry)))

    (gnus-registry-initialize)

And here are the relevant settings of my Unison configuration file. I
have all my Emacs initialization files inside ~/.emacs.d directory.

    ignore = Name #*#
    ignore = Name *~
    ignore = Name .#*
    ignore = Name .*~
    ignore = Path .emacs.d/auto-save-list
    ignore = Path .emacs.d/bookmarks
    ignore = Path .emacs.d/tramp
    path = .authinfo.gpg
    path = .emacs.d
    path = .mailrc
    path = .twittering-mode.gpg
    path = Mail
    path = News

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Re: Sharing gnus between 2 machines

[Julien Cubizolles]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:


>     (setq-default
>      spam-log-to-registry t
>      gnus-registry-max-entries 10000
>      gnus-registry-track-extra nil
>      gnus-refer-article-method '(current (nnregistry)))
>
>     (gnus-registry-initialize)

I had some minor differences, I'll try with yours.

> And here are the relevant settings of my Unison configuration file.

I have the same kind of setup here.

Do you use the agent ? with a nnimap group ?

Thanks for your help,

Julien.


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Re: Sharing gnus between 2 machines

[Teemu Likonen]

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Julien Cubizolles [2013-07-04 22:17:24 +02:00] wrote:

> Do you use the agent ? with a nnimap group ?

No agent at all.

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