Re: sending mail while unplugged

[kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> Nice feature to have. I only wonder how you, guys, use the gnus
> (un)plug feature. I mean here I am automagically unplugged when and
> only when I do NOT have any network connection (e.g. in the train).

When I log in, ~/.xinitrc starts Gnus unplugged.

I get up in the morning.  I turn on the laptop.  I log in.  I wait
for Gnus to start.  I go plugged.  I fetch news.  I have breakfast
and take a shower.  I go back to the laptop and get new mail and
fetch news once more, just for the heck of it.  I do something for a
minute.  I go back to the laptop, go unplugged, hibernate the laptop,
put it in my backpack.

I go to the trainstation.  In the train, I wake up the laptop, read
mail in unplugged mode and answer it and so on.  At the end of the
train ride, I shut down the laptop.

In the office, I put the laptop into the docking station and turn it
on.  (I had shut it down before because Linux doesn't like to wake up
in the docking station for various reasons.)  I log in.  I wait for
Gnus to appear.  I plug it.  I send queued messages.  I work.

In the evening, it's ``same procedure as every year, James''.
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