From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus and local mirroring Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:12:20 -0400 Message-ID: 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 1536977460 18024 195.159.176.226 (15 Sep 2018 02:11:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 02:11:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 15 04:10:56 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 1g102v-0004Yb-ID for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 04:10:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54049 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1051-0008CE-Pv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g104Y-0008C5-PB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:12:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g104T-0004Ll-Sw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:12:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=50038 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g104T-0004Gs-LS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:12:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g102K-0003ss-0l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 04:10:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:qd9qotx0czYoZkBnjbr42Eg8GV0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:117928 Archived-At: >>> 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). Stefan