In case the consistency issue isn't as obvious as I had thought, I present some specific concerns. Suppose, for simplicity, that my desktop computer is always connected to the internet, with perfect uptime, and that I have the rsync cron job on my laptop, which is often not connected to the internet. I can also run the rsync manually. Here are some problematic situations that could arise.
I inc on the laptop but close it before I run rsync. Then I inc on the desktop. Both inc runs created new files in the same folder with the same number. I write a draft on the laptop when I do not have internet access. Before I get around to connecting to the laptop, I also write a draft on the desktop. Both drafts have the same number. I refile 1000 messages, or I pack, on the laptop while I do not have internet access. The issue is the same sort of issue as the previous scenarios, except that it's a lot more messages. I guess I could do rsync and have a way of resolving the conflicts: If two identically named files aren't exact matches, rename one of them to a higher number. Has anyone already written that? On Thu, Sep 1, 2016, at 03:56 PM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > rsync from cron ? > > --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie > hy...@lactose.homelinux.net > My fitbit says I've walked 3304 steps today (as of 15:49). > > Thomas Levine writes: > >I want to access the same mails from both my laptop computer and my > >desktop computer. I can do this with naive copying if I always > >synchronize before I inc, refile, send, &c, but that often requires a good > >internet connection, and it is too easy for the synchronization to > >accidentally not happen and thus to lead to filename conflicts. > >Are there any very good ways of using mail between two computers? > > > >Two easy things I thought of > > > >* Use separate folders for the separate computers > > (+laptop/inbox, +laptop/outbox, +desktop/inbox, +desktop/outbox) > > and write wrappers that make the typing less verbose. > >* Patch nmh so that you can configure a different modulus for each > > computer. New files will be numbered only as multiples of this > > modulus. In my case, for example, I could use odd numbers for the > > desktop and even numbers for the laptop > > _______________________________________________ > Nmh-workers mailing list > Nmh-workers@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
