From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86409 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hume Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Agent Article Downloading Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:33:28 +0000 Organization: Haphazard Message-ID: <84bn9rtn13.fsf@example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450216031 2169 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2015 21:47:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:47:11 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34641@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Dec 15 22:46:57 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a8xQr-0001PL-Pv for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:46:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1a8xQ1-0003KH-Ec; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:46:01 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1a8xE5-0003GE-La for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:33:41 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1a8xE4-0004a2-Kj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:33:41 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a8xE2-0008QN-Jg for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:33:38 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a8xE0-00014O-IP for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:33:36 +0100 Original-Received: from 91.84.10.96 ([91.84.10.96]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:33:36 +0100 Original-Received: from a10086773 by 91.84.10.96 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:33:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.84.10.96 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gxkr9e5G5D63lsqyS2WnhJtNjsI= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86409 Archived-At: I am reposting this as it didn't turn up. I have found a work-around of sorts, which is to type something like escape 1000 @ which toggles the download flag for 1000 articles and then it is possible to fetch them. But I think I must be missing something. Original article: What is the meaning of "eligible" as in Fetch all eligible articles in the current group (gnus-agent-fetch-groups)? I have enabled Gnus Agent, and created a category called "download", and put a newsgroup into that category. I have set the predicate for the category to "true" and also the score to "true" (although I am not sure if that is a valid value for score). And I have added the server to Agent (or added the agent to the server) so it appears with agent in brackets in the server buffer. So now if I go in the group and read an article it downloads the article and puts it in ~/News/agent... in a file whose name is an article number. So, the question is, how do I get it to download all the articles, at least the number specified in (gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles ) ? If I select Agent -> Fetch -> Group it doesn't seem to do anything, usually. I did see it do something on one occasion but haven't been able to recreate the situation.