From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus and local mirroring Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 08:54:22 -0700 Message-ID: <87h8iqzrgx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <86va7afpda.fsf@zoho.com> <83musmktmv.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2hxstkw.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <837ejplc7p.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhwlzct5.fsf@gmail.com> <87d0tgh6rx.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <87zhwko6uy.fsf@gmail.com> <87ftycyn0h.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <8736ubllgb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537026775 28472 195.159.176.226 (15 Sep 2018 15:52:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:52:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 15 17:52:51 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g1CsM-0007L0-Pt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 17:52:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55923 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1CuT-0006Qh-6x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53535) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1Cu0-0006Qb-Ep for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1Ctw-0003w0-9o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:54:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.ericabrahamsen.net ([50.56.99.223]:32806) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1Ctv-0003ux-JA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:54:28 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (174-21-164-146.tukw.qwest.net [174.21.164.146]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: eric@ericabrahamsen.net) by mail.ericabrahamsen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 74BC2C3D1C; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:54:25 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mail.ericabrahamsen.net; s=mail; t=1537026865; bh=fM/Os95CfwLe/RDxV8jWLSz+QhSNQBuVEj8rYaaVscE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=DlkHjWMGiwoHIAaKA9yFQfoMBq8ZuEcg0QNSb/JnJirCS930pJ9GlTWmH763vrYIT nus4mFe2k7wLFloHkpiPfYW8GSB/hLlM6VKHRf2F41AwPUyvu1vG+V5WW1CZptoxIP 5moeysLrclqVzL4nJd0FBnkAxqGxyGhXHAT0fZkU= In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:12:20 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 50.56.99.223 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117932 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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.