From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52796 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP: file storage, relation to agent, and what the server Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 08:22:15 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <84wugifai0.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053672570 16193 80.91.224.249 (23 May 2003 06:49:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 06:49:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1340@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 23 08:49:26 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19J6Mo-0004Cr-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 08:49:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19J6O6-0006iz-00; Fri, 23 May 2003 01:50:46 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19J6Nw-0006it-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 23 May 2003 01:50:36 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 33662 invoked by alias); 23 May 2003 06:50:35 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 33655 invoked from network); 23 May 2003 06:50:35 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 23 May 2003 06:50:35 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19J6Xc-0006aR-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 09:00:36 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 52 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1053673236 25322 134.91.35.216 (23 May 2003 07:00:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 May 2003 07:00:36 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CjjPFaM+BbtmFp+RQ+kOz04r18w= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52796 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52796 John Owens writes: > Simple question: I'd like to leave my mail files (groups) on the IMAP > server. However, I'm happy with local cached versions on my laptop, > and I assume I can mark what I want cached and then allow gnus to sync > before I unplug. Yes. > I don't want to have to sync all the mail groups, and I don't think I > have to. That's right, you don't have to. You can use the so-called categories to tell Gnus which articles should be downloaded. For example, you can tell Gnus to download short articles only. You can use different categories for different groups. What I do is something very simple: I download everything in some groups, and nothing in other groups. I have set gnus-agent-handle-level to 3 and some groups are on level 4 so their articles are never downloaded. Everything means to download all articles (read and unread ones) in nnimap groups, whereas it means to download all unread articles only in nntp groups. > But how should I set up my mail group files so that > > a) I can read mail on the server and always be synched; That's easy, Gnus behaves like this by default. > b) I can read mail on my laptop and have a few groups synched? > > I imagine this is possible and a solved problem; I'm concerned with > the gnus settings necessary to point to the right directories and > files; I haven't used full-blown IMAP before and am not sure what it > magically does for me as far as keeping things synched, and what gnus > does, and what I have to do. In order to fetch the articles you have to use a fetching command. Gnus doesn't do that automatically. The easiest fetching command is to use `J s' from the group buffer which fetches stuff from all groups (according to gnus-agent-handle-level and the categories). In order to go online or offline you have to use `J j' (it toggles). In order to send articles that you composed while offline you have to use `J S'. -- This line is not blank.