From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: magnus@therning.org (Magnus Therning)
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:12:10 +0000
Subject: [sup-talk] Persistence between IMAP clients
In-Reply-To: <1202229600-sup-4858@south>
References: <20080204151221.GA29477@manheim.library.drexel.edu>
	<1202229600-sup-4858@south>
Message-ID: <47A8B50A.3030302@therning.org>

William Morgan wrote:
> Reformatted excerpts from Gabriel Sean Farrell's message of 2008-02-04:
>> Is there a way to persist the labels applied from an instance of sup
>> IMAPing from one machine to another instance on another machine?  I
>> check my mail from four different computers on a regular basis, and I
>> haven't figured out, for example, how to delete emails when checking
>> with one machine and see them as deleted (that is, *not* see them in my
>> inbox) when checking with another. 
> 
> There is no good way to do this. There are bad ways (you can dump all
> your labels with sup-dump, send them over, and apply them with
> sup-sync).
> 
> Sup will probably never work well in this kind of setup.

Would it be possible to simply use unison to synchronise the machines?
As long as you can make sure to avoid conflicts and you can make sure
system-specific settings (such as file locations and server settings)
are the same it /could/ work.  Please note that I've never tried it with
sup, but other MUAs have worked fine this way.

/M

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