Re: How to not check for new messages at start-up?

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 18 2011, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>
>> When Gnus is started it automatically checks for new messages. Can I
>> prevent that? Sometimes I don't want this automatic "g" command but just
>> a quick M-g on a specific group.
>
> If you use `gnus-unplugged' instead of `gnus', that should do what you
> want. You might have to be using the agent, and it doesn't always
> behave exactly as you'd expect, but that's the basic idea…
>
> Eric

or set gnus-activate-level to a very low number:

,----[ C-h v gnus-activate-level RET ]
| gnus-activate-level is a variable defined in `gnus-start.el'.
| Its value is 2
| Original value was 6
| 
| Documentation:
| *Groups higher than this level won't be activated on startup.
| Setting this variable to something low might save lots of time when
| you have many groups that you aren't interested in.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| [back]
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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1 + No Gnus v0.18