Re: synchronizing gnus sessions on multiple computers

[Leo Butler]

Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:

> "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> - How can I tell gnus (in a running emacs session) that I've rsync'ed
>>   all local user directories and gnus should update itself accordingly
>>   when, for example, articles are marked as read or expired.
>>
>> - Where does gnus store the information that I have read or marked for
>>   expiration some news or mail articles in a group?
>
> When you are rsync’ing between two machines, you need to do it for the
> following files/directories:
>
> ~/News/
> ~/Mail/
> ~/.gnus.el
> ~/emacs.d/ ; (this is required for syncing other Emacs settings)
> ~/.newsrc  ; (there are multiple formats newsrc.eld, newsrc.el
>            ; or just .newsrc, This is what you are looking for.)
> ~/.authinfo.gpg ; (.newsrc, .authinfo etc.)
>
> Others, please add if I am missing some files/dirs.


I think one needs to save the dribble file, and copy it, too:

~/.newsrc-dribble

Leo