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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:37:16 -0300, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
> Well, only one place where you mark things unread as well with this
> approach. Otherwise updating the database in two places and attempting
> to sync will lead to an unmergable conflict, won't it?

Oh yeah, sorry. I'm assuming "unison" is similar to NFS or something.
I just mount stuff via sshfs, so i don't run into that problem at all.