Re: agent and mail-source

[Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

LMI> Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
>> But I am thinking to implement a parameter for mail-source, say
>> `:level'.  Level 1 is local, i.e. gnus will fetch the mail source
>> whenever it is plugged or not; level 3 (default) is remote, i.e. gnus
>> fetch the mail source only if it is plugged; level 6 is unactive
>> source, i.e. gnus does not fetch the mail unless in some special
>> cases.

LMI> Yes, this sounds like a good idea.  But isn't this really more of a
LMI> boolean thing?  If we're unplugged, we either do or don't want the
LMI> mail sources to kick in, so perhaps instead of :level we would have
LMI> something like :plugged that could have value nil or t?

>> For this reason, `:level' is a common parameter, i.e. each type of
>> mail source has this parameter. Therefore, put it in a common keywords
>> list variable, named `mail-source-common-keywords'.

LMI> Yup.

[...]

Done.

Now I use

(setq mail-sources 
        '((file :plugged t) 
          (webmail :subtype yahoo :user "shenghuo")))

Local mail is always checked, while Yahoo mail is checked only when
plugged.

-- 
Shenghuo