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...
>
> It doesn't really have to be reimplemented, tho.  All it could take is
> a bit of automatic config to run offline-imap/mbsync/... since the main
> issue is that it should be sufficiently transparent/automatic that it
> doesn't require any special config from the other (other than installing
> those tools via `apt`, say).

Okay, interesting. That's worth thinking about.