Re: Accessing cached articles without an active internet connection

[Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com>]

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.

Thank you,
-- 
 Alexander Baier