Re: Offline mail and group cooperation

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> It's getting urgent for me.  I really want to be able to download all
> articles, including the read ones.

I've been looking at the patch from
http://www.gnus.org/cgi-bin/wilma_hiliter/ding/200007/msg00006.html?line=30#hilite
-- this is the one you meant?

The first hunk cannot be applied easily because the code looks very
different around that part.  (If the comment still identifies the
spot.)

I've also been thinking about changing the predicate syntax so that
the old predicates are still valid (with the same meaning), and only
new-style predicates include the unread articles.  One possibility
would be to look for each predicate whether it contains the symbols
`read' and `unread'.  If the symbols are not present, it must be an
old-style predicate, and it is rewritten: let P be the predicate,
then the rewritten predicate is (and (not read) P).

If one of the symbols `read' or `unread' are present, then the
predicate is not rewritten but just taken as-is.

But then people have to say something atrocious like (or read true)
to just fetch all articles.  This is really ugly.  Or is there a
better way to do it so that the new predicates aren't so ugly?

Simon, would you be willing to update your patch to the current
gnus-agent?  I'd test it right away.

[time passes]

I even found a good name for that variable:
gnus-agent-consider-all-articles.  It would default to nil.  And
gnus-agent-fetch-headers can just have the current behavior or include
all articles, depending on the variable.

kai
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