Re: Gnus and rsync

[Nuno J. Silva]

On using nnimap instead of nnmaildir (to be able to sync with offlineimap):

nunojsilva@invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva) writes:
> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>>>> nunojsilva@invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva) writes:
>>>>
>>>>> So I've now hit the issue where I have two computers on which I want to
>>>>> keep gnus stuff on-sync.
[...]
>>>>> Unfortunately, this doesn't work as expected: in some mail folders the
>>>>> unread messages are months old,[...] 
>> The best way I found is to use offlineimap to sync a local dovecot
>> server. Since gnus uses the server flags all is dandy.

So I'm now using that kind of setup, and I've got no problems so far.

> I'm currently using Gnus to fetch e-mails. As offlineimap was designed
> exactly to sync newly created files, I suppose it will work - I just
> need to change the mail folders from nnmaildir to dovecot and save the
> new messages there.

It doesn't work, at least not out-of-the-box*: using Gnus to fetch mail
means there needs to be something like a "local" (as in file-based) mail
backend. That is, it won't fetch messages to nnimap, only nnmaildir and
its friends.

* It seems I need to do some black magic for this to happen, at least
according to the manual. I'm okay with the pentagram and the candles,
but I have no goat around ATM.

> What about performance? I suppose it's pretty okay, as the IMAP server
> is running locally; and I expect offlineimap to take some more time.

Performance is pretty good. Of course there's a noticeable (but really
short) delay when opening a bigger-than-usual message, that's expected.

-- 
Nuno J. Silva
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