From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9714 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cyprian Laskowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: reading the same server's mail from different client machines' gnus (with tramp's help?) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:17:11 +0100 Organization: School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191139412 1133 80.91.229.12 (30 Sep 2007 08:03:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:03:32 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 30 10:03:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ibtlw-0006ZC-Fk for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:03:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ibtls-0003UU-Rd for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:03:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ithil.ling.ed.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: scotsman.ed.ac.uk 1191107834 1003 129.215.204.231 (29 Sep 2007 23:17:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@scotsman.ed.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:17:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:y0jtLLA+G2ODq2obPBjgshxVxMQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:79918 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:03:20 -0400 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9714 Archived-At: Hi, My primarily email is stored unix-fashion in /var/mail/blahblah on my university's server, and I usually (but not always) read it by sshing from my laptop into my university account, running an emacs from there, from which I read my email with gnus. This works fine, but it would be even nicer if I could read my mail from my laptop emacs gnus directly. I know that one can set up the mail-sources to do ssh-fetching stuff, but the thing is, I don't want to actually fetch the mail onto my laptop, because sometimes I do login on university machines, and, unlike my laptop, these are always running. And I certainly don't want some mail stored on one machine and the rest on another. What I'm after instead is a way to sometimes run gnus from the university machines directly, and sometimes from my laptop, but for the mail to always be stored on the university machines. Thus ideally running 'M-x gnus' should yield identical results (at a particular time of course) if run from laptop or university machine. Having passwordless ssh and tramp working on my laptop, I wonder: is this feasible without too much hassle? For example, suppose I specify tramp filenames for mail-sources and mail-source-directory, e.g., (setq mail-sources '((file :path "remote.host.blah.blah:/var/mail/blahblah))) (setq mail-source-directory "remote.host.blah.blah:Mail") in my laptop emacs config. But I'm not sure what sort of thing I would need to do to get *writing* mail to work (e.g., I imagine this means setting up the mail buffer contents to save on the remote machine and then invoking the sendmail or whatever commands remotely somehow, all with one keybinding hopefully)? Am I on the right track to success here, or am I going to hit a dead end soon? Any help would be greatly appreciated. cyp