Re: [sup-talk] Fwd: Automatic labels backup

[William Baxter <web-sup@superscript.com>]

Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of Tue Dec 15 00:35:42 -0500 2009:
> Ever had your index corrupted, and your last backup of your labels from
> a month ago?  Ever had to go speed through a month's worth of mail?
> 
> Well, now, you can /not/ have to do that, with a handy-dandy automated
> index dump tool that I've written.  It's at the bottom of the
> hooks page here: <http://sup.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Hooks> and I've
> reproduced it below for completeness.

For a few weeks I have used sup to read the same mail on two hosts: an office
desktop and a laptop.  Each host fetches mail from the same IMAP server.  I use
the desktop all day, altering labels frequently, and consequently find reading
from the laptop less useful.  I want to sync labels across the two hosts.

How much additional work does it take to turn an index dump into a sup-to-sup
sync mechanism?  Suppose that on one host you dump the index and send a signed
message.  This reaches the receiving host when you read mail there.  Use it to
update the index, and the receiving host has labels matching those on the
sending host.

Cheers, W.
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