Re: More emacs instances

[Richard Riley]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 07 2010, Andrea Crotti wrote:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> I know this topic is straying a bit and perhaps should be on the gnus
>>> list, but since we're talking about it…
>>>
>>> I am using gmail POP and want to switch to IMAP, using offlineimap.
>>> Since I've been deleting mails from the server under POP usage, I've
>>> only got the most recent month or so of mail on the gmail servers.
>>>
>>> Now if I switch to a setup where gnus and offlineimap use the same
>>> maildir for their mail, that means my old messages will be deleted (or
>>> at least can't be stored in that maildir) when I switch to IMAP, right?
>>> But if offlineimap populates a maildir, and gnus uses it as a mail
>>> source to slurp up its messages, does that mean that from here on out
>>> I'll have two copies of all my mail: offlineimap's maildir, and gnus'
>>> group folders? Is it possible to delete the retrieved messages from
>>> offlineimap's maildir, without confusing offlineimap?
>>>
>>> I hope this makes sense! I'm sure there's a simple solution, and I'll be
>>> backing up thoroughly before I mess with it, but I'd love to hear how
>>> this works for other people…
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Eric 
>>>
>>
>>
>> Mm I don't see why you would have two copies, if offlineimap is
>> bidirectional and if gnus is not behaving too crazily the changes you do
>> to your Maildir will be also written on the remote imap server.
>>
>> Is that correct?
>> Another way is to have an imap server running locally on the machine and
>> that should be even easier...
>
> Thanks! Mostly this was a confusion about the way imap and gnus work
> together. I was thinking that I could still use my local group-splitting
> setup, but of course if you're using imap properly the splitting is done
> on the server. Might be more work than I'm willing to put in at this point...
>

I'm not sure this is true. There is no reason not to have client side
splitting just because you are using IMAP. You might use procmail to
split at the imap server side but this doesnt preclude additional client
side splitting or even  replacing server procmail based splitting
completely with client side splitting. And for many who ONLY use Gnus
the client side gnus splitting might indeed be preferable as its
configured in the client : performance not being an issue for those of
us using a local dovecot imap server which is kept in sync using
something like offlineimap.

regards

r.