Re: Gnus Agent and mail

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk>]

[It's a bit late to reply to this now, but I've been offline for quite
some time, so...]

On 29 apr 2003, kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com wrote:
>Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
>>On 14 apr 2003, kai.grossjohann@gmx.net wrote:
>>I think there ought to be an option to control whether or not the
>>agent should queue mail--it seems easy to add, and it's clearly
>>useful.
>
>While I agree with the intent, I don't like the idea of changing the
>definition of gnus-plugged to cover every back-end EXCEPT imap.

Hmm, where did IMAP get into this?

As far as I know, for mail the machinery for sending mail is totally
decoupled from that for receiving it (unlike news).  For instance, I
have both nnimap and nnml groups, but when I send email it is always
sent with whatever message-send-mail-function specifies.

What I would like is a variable gnus-agent-queue-mail such that:

  always -> always queue mail that is sent, regardless of plugged status.
  nil -> never queue mail that is sent, regardless of plugged status.
  otherwise, queue mail that is sent if and only if gnus is unplugged.

Or at least that is what I would have liked; I now have a permanent
internet connection so don't use the agent much anymore.

>I think that it would be better to change the code such that the
>plugged status per server can be configured to either 1) always
>plugged, 2) never plugged , or 3) plugged when gnus-plugged is t.

That might be useful too.

>We're in the middle of a feature freeze right now.  I'll hang on to
>this to consider later.

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