[email protected] (Nuno J. Silva) writes: > Eric S Fraga <[email protected]> writes: > >> [email protected] (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. >>> >>> I've tried the simple solution: rsyncing the whole bunch of files (news, >>> mail, .gnus.el, and some other gnus files. >> >> maybe have a look at unison? works very well for keeping systems in >> sync. > > I will, but AFAICT, from the debugging I made today, the issue is not > rsync, so I'll delay looking unison for a while. > >>> Unfortunately, this doesn't work as expected: in some mail folders the >>> unread messages are months old,[...] > > As promised, I tested diffing the rsync files with a plain tarball sync, > and it's the same. > > What happens is that, after starting gnus, a lot of NOV files get > changed. > > Removing every nov folder (*/.nnmaildir/nov, relative to nnmaildir root) > before starting gnus forces gnus to regenerate these, what causes a > slightly long delay but works (that is, now the unread messages are the > same as in the original gnus setup). > > Next step seems to be understanding which changes are made to NOV files > so I can know why is this happening... > > (Same Gnus and Emacs version on both computers.)
I tried a plain old sync for a while with gnus and more often that not things went wrong. The best way I found is to use offlineimap to sync a local dovecot server. Since gnus uses the server flags all is dandy. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
