From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75835 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Agent And Mail Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:48:08 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <55d3nn8ymv.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295794136 5085 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2011 14:48:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:48:56 +0000 (UTC) To: nognus Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24186@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 23 15:48:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ph1FL-00005S-Ka for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:48:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ph1FC-00063B-RP; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:48:42 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ph1FB-000632-EN for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:48:41 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ph1F9-0002oD-MS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:48:41 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f44.google.com ([209.85.214.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ph1F8-0007t7-EX for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:48:38 +0100 Original-Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so2855050bwz.17 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:48:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:organization:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=wR+O/CKaS0Vodge6BX8Do4jQn/HwRBKwg27/MAyDcpk=; b=noUMsNnHEtIof60YqFx5YS2pIxM401tAx2IX4s+LL6zsBIBsPLXMn3LFWT29aN04K5 bYIqAFTc8IvyiXX872JNesuGyV57bqEhaxnYuJQudj/RDaCLg5jzoPG0ZaZLJJ2bIR+w 2UviYAXWstS5xCsQdPnx/Yj//ozD/di5ulg0A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:organization:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; b=iXtznuOw18WlsOZ04Mpwu4JnUpNtbuv4cgHDATWevCpoPg5pCkvVKqc9Mkce3OQefp iZqYBXK5CgVe4mYF+GfwfPzgvEAai23S7EgF6NN0PqycVHCW8Qm0+jGjYnL/2wCdi5g6 ufcAkKmPZcMYH2X0JL70owQpoZkR4a4uP+8Ng= Original-Received: by 10.204.102.193 with SMTP id h1mr2600520bko.149.1295794097493; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:48:17 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost ([85.183.18.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a17sm5570148bku.23.2011.01.23.06.48.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:48:16 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75835 Archived-At: The gnus manual suggests that it might be nonsensical to have a mail back end agentized? Why? It actually seems the best approach for maintaining a local copy of a certain subset of mails. For a long time now I have relied on offlineimap and a local dovecot server. offlineimap has mucked up once too often (3 machines downloading all 30000 emails again..) and I have decided to revert to a direct gmail connection : in this scenario I have a group (gmail) with all messages read - I would like to C-u 1000 /o to fetch the last 1000 messages and then have the agent fetch those emails and store locally so that I can peruse them in offline mode. Possible? (I tried and it doesnt work for me - I have to open an email in unplugged mode for that email to be marked for fetch next time I do a J s).