Please; 1 point of agent workings to clear up

Please; 1 point of agent workings to clear up

[hput]

Having trouble getting  more than a few pieces of gnus-agent workings by
googling.

Maybe someone can answer just one point:

I have a number of messages marked with the gnus download mark my
agent category is 'true' so all should download I think.

OK so when will this downloading take place?  Do I need to close the
group or leave it open? .. so how is the downloading kicked off?

Re: Please; 1 point of agent workings to clear up

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Sat, 01 Apr 2023 14:52:00 -0400, hput <hput3@fastmail.fm> said:

    hput> Having trouble getting  more than a few pieces of gnus-agent workings by
    hput> googling.

Emacs is self-documenting. Get into the habit of asking Emacs, not
random web pages.

    hput> Maybe someone can answer just one point:

    hput> I have a number of messages marked with the gnus download mark my
    hput> agent category is 'true' so all should download I think.

    hput> OK so when will this downloading take place?  Do I need to close the
    hput> group or leave it open? .. so how is the downloading kicked off?

You need to tell the agent to download the articles, eg with

    J s runs the command gnus-agent-fetch-session (found in
    gnus-agent-group-mode-map), which is an autoloaded interactive
    byte-compiled Lisp function in `gnus-agent.el'.

    It is bound to J s.

See (info "(gnus) Agent Basics") for more.

Robert
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