Re: Accessing cached articles without an active internet connection

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2014-04-30 09:19 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 2014-04-29 17:02 Eric S Fraga wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, 29 Apr 2014 at 15:05, Alexander Baier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>> Lets say I "agentize" the groups I want to achieve described
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure if you can directly choose groups to be handled by the
>>>> agent; maybe you can but I don't know how if so.  Instead, I have always
>>>> selected servers to be managed by the agent and you do this in the
>>>> server buffer (^ from the group buffer, "J a" to add a server to the
>>>> agent, "J r" to remove).
>>>>
>>>> However, only emails in groups with levels less than or equal to the
>>>> minimum of gnus-activate-level and gnus-agent-handle-level are actually
>>>> downloaded.
>>>>
>>>> So a combination of server selection and level settings will allow you
>>>> to choose which groups to download.
>>>
>>> The manual mentions Group and Topic parameters to be used to choose what
>>> groups are to be agentized.  I only need this functionality for groups
>>> hosted on gmane, so I just added the whole server.
>>>
>>>> If you start gnus unplugged (M-x gnus-unplugged RET), you can send
>>>> emails by C-c C-c as normal which puts them in a queue.  They are
>>>> subsequently sent if you "J S", whether plugged or not but hopefully
>>>> connected to the network.
>>>
>>> This is a nice side-effect of this whole agent-adventure.
>>
>> You can toggle plugged state with "J j": I do this all the time when I
>> want to send a pile of rapid-fire emails and don't want to wait for
>> network blocking. Toggle plugged, write a bunch of emails, toggle
>> plugged again, and go to the bathroom.
>
> I might just adapt this workflow.

The bit I missed was adding `gnus-group-send-queue' to the
'gnus-agent-plugged-hook variable. Then all works as expected (provided
you actually have an internet connection when you re-plug).

>> Sorry, just jumping into the thread because I really like this feature...
>
> Nothing to apologize for.  In my opinion sharing "user stories" like
> these is where you can learn the most about using emacs / gnus. The same
> holds for Eric S Fraga's earlier mail talking about using Agent to do
> your mail related work on the commute.

It's definitely all about the little conveniences...