Re: Solution for gnus wide sync

[Matt Lundin]

pocmatos@gmail.com (Paulo J. Matos) writes:

> I am currently using GNUS widely at home, on the laptop and at
> work. However, annoyingly I don't have any sync setup between gnus
> besides the config file through git and dropbox.
>
> What I would like is to sync 
> - the topic setup
> - subscribed newsgroups
> - newsgroup message status (read, expired, etc)
>
> Any tips on how to do this or workarounds to this?

I place everything of importance in a single ~/gnus/ directory and then
sync it across multiple machines using git.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  (setq 
   gnus-startup-file "~/gnus/.newsrc"
   gnus-directory "~/gnus/"
   gnus-registry-cache-file "~/gnus/.gnus.registry.eld"
   gnus-dribble-directory "~/gnus/"
   mail-source-directory "~/gnus/incoming/"
   gnus-cache-directory "~/gnus/cache/"
   )
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

One could use rsync or unision or one of many version control systems to
sync the data.

Note: my setup is a bit more complicated than this because I use local
mail backends (nnml, nnfolder) along with a local dovecot server
(nnimap), but the above should suffice for news. 

Hope this helps,
Matt