Re: syncing mail by simply syncing the filesystem

Subject: Re: syncing mail by simply syncing the filesystem

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:00:24 -0300

To: Christoph Groth

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: David Bremner


On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:13:07 +0200, Christoph Groth <cwg@falma.de> wrote:
> The ideal setup would be one which would allow to use any of my
> computers independently (for example when I'm away with my laptop).
> When necessary, the local mail stores would be synchronized by simply
> syncing the home directory (I'm using unison for this).

The issue with syncing notmuch is that you need to sync the tags
database as well. You can see one example way of doing that at 

         http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=notmuch-scripts.git;a=blob;f=scripts/gitmuch;hb=HEAD

Another, potentially more elegant approach is to use "notmuch remote"
scripts written by Jesse Rosenthal. I haven't done this myself, but I
did think was feasible when I looked at them.

More information can be found in message

     m1k4rkkchy.fsf@watt.gilman.jhu.edu
or

 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/nm-remote.git


I'm sure there are other approaches as well.

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