From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75836 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Agent And Mail Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:03:52 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <6dk4hv7gk7.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> References: <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 1295798679 25072 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2011 16:04:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:04:39 +0000 (UTC) To: nognus Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24187@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 23 17:04:35 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 1Ph2Qc-0001Ma-Rc for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:04:35 +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 1Ph2Q9-0006Ll-B7; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:04:05 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ph2Q7-0006LZ-ON for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:04:03 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ph2Q6-0005zi-Ax for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:04:03 -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 1Ph2Q4-0000aK-Kl for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:04:00 +0100 Original-Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so2883434bwz.17 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:04:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:date:organization :message-id:references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=rSJcUL3TnwxTEaNyzsL+NXjp1CUm40OzemiIvdAklNE=; b=Vq3GKnTN5KjBv1e6NCHwYEtfcq0PJ/KHVYTby6ZAtl/FrgZCgemg2WSTGfTxS71ezJ Vm2nuc0+AADteTPD1wOCpBWZs2PnySUeKm4XkUGub/xlB7EbqgCUfKfgOejS904NAaH+ 244AKVDpXJZyRrTV3nQWbT0E2uDJpAHffdeog= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:in-reply-to:date:organization:message-id:references :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=tOgFnQQe7v0KL0uJNSzn8mUA/BQWg8/BWspf1Rjo2nBy9H1GeWIqD89saa5sisBDkQ EWKfiHDsddW+sA57EkEWxwV0aGouGpktYx3niDe0l048noFmwn5IkH/wf/7bBp1L9PEG ZkU9Jf+v2BQJc/JoKJ9MSTtYGec+UssU2uSNs= Original-Received: by 10.204.75.193 with SMTP id z1mr2592426bkj.214.1295798639855; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:03:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost ([85.183.18.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id rc9sm4170518bkb.2.2011.01.23.08.03.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:03:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <55d3nn8ymv.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (Richard Riley's message of "Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:48:08 +0100") 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:75836 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > 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. Re-readimg I guess it means a backend that is local mail - not referring to an imap remote conenction. The rest remains relevant however: > > 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). >