From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: garoth@gmail.com (Andrei Thorp)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:30:40 -0400
Subject: [sup-talk] Using sup on multiple computers?
In-Reply-To: <1247194844-sup-6153@sfo.thejof.com>
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Message-ID: <1247236046-sup-9543@Longbow>

Excerpts from Jonathan Lassoff's message of Thu Jul 09 23:03:22 -0400 2009:
> Excerpts from Michael Stapelberg's message of Thu Jul 09 17:38:25 -0700 2009:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to use sup on my notebook and on my workstation. Is there any
> > simple/recommended way to synchronize the index?
> 
> As far as I know, this isn't supported in sup yet.
> 
> One way I work around this to use sup on two machines is that I know my
> access is mutually exclusive i.e. I don't use more than one host at
> once.

The smarter way of doing this is to keep your .sup on a remote server as
a share and mount it onto the right place in your home when you log in.
This still has the disadvantage of only being able to use one sup at a
time, but at least sup will lock the index using its lockfile, so you
can't accidentally run two at once and screw something up.

It also prevents you from having to manually rsync stuff.

The nicest way to do this would to probably use sshfs. This way, the
index is shared, you only need ssh (no NFS nastiness), it can mount
automatically, and since sup is actually running on your local machine,
it can save attachments just fine.

One note: You need to either have _identical_ imap folders on your
computers in the identical filesystem paths, or you need to have your
mail delivered to the server and share that too.
-- 
Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)