From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47326 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Enberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Agent gone mad? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:12:44 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87bs5olkeb.fsf@enberg.org> References: <874rbicfno.fsf@enberg.org> <84r8elrrtp.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035219511 13227 80.91.224.249 (21 Oct 2002 16:58:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org 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 183QJg-0006Am-00 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:21:09 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 183QJ7-0000zL-00; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:20:33 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:21:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA16533 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:21:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 4796 invoked by alias); 21 Oct 2002 00:20:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4790 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2002 00:20:14 -0000 Original-Received: from maile.telia.com (194.22.190.16) by gnus.org with SMTP; 21 Oct 2002 00:20:14 -0000 Original-Received: from d1o1112.telia.com (d1o1112.telia.com [213.67.192.241]) by maile.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9L0K5ZR013005; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:20:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from rocksteady (h230n2fls32o1112.telia.com [213.65.65.230]) by d1o1112.telia.com (8.10.2/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g9L0K5g29668; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:20:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by rocksteady (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4311137B85; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:18:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: <84r8elrrtp.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:35:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47326 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47326 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Henrik Enberg writes: > >> After updating my Gnus the agent wants to download many megs of long >> since read ande marked as expirable articles and headers. Is this an >> intended change? How do I prevent it? > > Whee. It's supposed to fetch old mail if > gnus-agent-consider-all-articles is true, but the behavior if that > variable is false should not have changed. (The default is false.) > > What's the value you have? with nil it downloads all headers and messages and then throws away the messages. With t it saves the messages. It does this even if all the messages are downloaded. > Hm. I also made another change, and I notice the same problem. I > changed it because before, it always downloaded no articles for me, > and that was not right either. > > Would you be willing to help out to solve the problem? I'm having > trouble to understand the code. I don't really understand it either, and I'm rather busy for the next week or so. But I'll do my do my best. -- Booting... /vmemacs.el