Newsrc file on IMAP server?

I would like to keep my e-mail/news synchronized across multiple instances
of alpine. For the most part, using IMAP with remote configurations works
well; however, the newsrc file is local. This is really inconvenient,
since I am not only required to add all of the feeds I want on every
instance, but also the "News Approximates New Status" option becomes
useless.

I tried setting the "Newsrc path" to reside on the
IMAP server, e.g.: {server.domain.tld/ssl/novalidate-cert/}path/newsrc
but this failed with the error:
"Unable to create news state {server.domain.tld/etc..."
I presume this means I simply can't do that.

Is there a clever trick that I can use here instead? Something obvious I'm
missing, perhaps? Of course, I could use an nfs mount to store the file,
but that isn't really practical for road warrior sort of work.

Thanks,
--John

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, John Wofford wrote:
>
> I would like to keep my e-mail/news synchronized across multiple
> instances of alpine. For the most part, using IMAP with remote
> configurations works well; however, the newsrc file is local. This is
> really inconvenient, [...]

It is currently not possible to have a remote (on imap) newsrc file. I've
previously asked if this feature existed and also requested its
implementation. I'm not sure why it isn't implemented, but there must be
some reason.

> Is there a clever trick that I can use here instead? Something obvious I'm
> missing, perhaps? Of course, I could use an nfs mount to store the file,
> but that isn't really practical for road warrior sort of work.

A good thread on comp.mail.pine is
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.pine/browse_thread/thread/05422b3e07f3edfe>,
but others are to be found.

Erik