Re: Gnus and local mirroring

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Wouldn't this require writing an IMAP server in Elisp?
>
> I don't see why.  It might require writing the moral equivalent of
> offline-imap, but not an IMAP server, no.

Yup, I hadn't thought that through completely. But still, re-writing
offline-imap/isync in Elisp is going to be a huge amount of work, and
wouldn't really be usable until we have a solid implementation of
threads/async elisp. And I don't quite see the benefit. My.mbsyncrc file
is 61 lines, and I would expect an equivalent amount of config to make
Gnus do the same thing...