From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74197 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gabe Logan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus always fetching all messages from nntp server Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:32:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87mxp39lnf.fsf@seashell.home> References: <87bp5kl66u.fsf@seashell.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290324788 12142 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2010 07:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 07:33:08 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22562@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Nov 21 08:33:04 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PK4Q3-0007Yy-M5 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:33:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PK4PP-00044F-5e; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:32:23 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PK4P3-00043o-86 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:32:01 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PK4Ow-0003vs-P8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:31:58 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PK4Ow-0004iG-00 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:31:54 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PK4Ov-0007HA-TW for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:31:53 +0100 Original-Received: from adce21.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([79.184.30.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:31:53 +0100 Original-Received: from session13 by adce21.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:31:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adce21.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5HJY7NQJ8c5DxWY42EnLIqFbcqc= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74197 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Gabe Logan writes: > >> I've just started using Gnus and I don't understand why is it always >> fetching all messages from server when I'm entering a nntp >> newsgroup. Event when I tell Gnus to fetch only 50 of about 80.000 >> messages it fetches about 20.000k what takes a while. > > Have you set `gnus-fetch-old-headers'? Thanks, I've unset gnus-fetch-old-headers and now it fetches only unread messages. But when gnus-fetch-old-headers is t, shouldn't Gnus fetch only those old headers which belongs to unread messages ? I had all messages marked as read (with `c' command) but Gnus still fetched them all. -- Thanks Gabe