* separating reading new mail and news
@ 1995-11-29 18:11 Saileshwar Krishnamurthy
1995-11-29 19:49 ` Jack Vinson
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From: Saileshwar Krishnamurthy @ 1995-11-29 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
It'll be nice if the fuctions for reading mail and news were
separated instead of one group-get-new-news.
This reduces waiting time while you're waiting for new mail to be
read in.
Cheers
Sailesh
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* Re: separating reading new mail and news
1995-11-29 18:11 separating reading new mail and news Saileshwar Krishnamurthy
@ 1995-11-29 19:49 ` Jack Vinson
1995-11-29 21:26 ` Sten Drescher
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From: Jack Vinson @ 1995-11-29 19:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> "SK" == Saileshwar Krishnamurthy <krish@cs.purdue.edu> writes:
SK> It'll be nice if the fuctions for reading mail and news were
SK> separated instead of one group-get-new-news.
No, just keep your mail groups at a lower level than your news groups.
Each group has a level, from 1-9, indicating its "subscribedness." A low
level is highly subscribed and a level of 9 is dead as a doornail.
This definition might help too:
gnus-group-get-new-news: an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus'.
(gnus-group-get-new-news &optional ARG)
Get newly arrived articles.
If ARG is a number, it specifies which levels you are interested in
re-scanning. If ARG is non-nil and not a number, this will force
"hard" re-reading of the active files from all servers.
As you can see, the thing to do is set all your mail groups to level 1,
say, and then do C-u 1 g in the Group buffer. I've tied this to M-x m, in
order to override the default mail agent, Rmail. Set levels with S l in
the group buffer.
The default level for subscribed mail and news is 3.
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* Re: separating reading new mail and news
1995-11-29 19:49 ` Jack Vinson
@ 1995-11-29 21:26 ` Sten Drescher
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From: Sten Drescher @ 1995-11-29 21:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Jack Vinson
jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson) said:
>>>>>> "SK" == Saileshwar Krishnamurthy <krish@cs.purdue.edu> writes:
SK> It'll be nice if the fuctions for reading mail and news were
SK> separated instead of one group-get-new-news.
JV> No, just keep your mail groups at a lower level than your news
JV> groups.
This is great, unless you have some news groups (which you don't want
to check) which are normally more important than some mail groups. What
I do is "F" - gnus-find-new-newsgroups, which causes nnml to read my
procmail-generated spool files in order to discover if there are any new
groups (which, by the way, is a really neat thing - I don't have to
manually create nnml groups, it automagically creates them), then "2 g"
to update the article counts for the high-priority mail groups. I'm
only guessing that this sequence would empty the mail spool if you are
letting Gnus split your mail for you, though.
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