Re: automatic Agentizing of servers (was: Summary buffer

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>:
>
>> Uhm, but what would you expect to happen?  The knowledge about which
>> servers are agentized and which are not is stored in
>> ~/News/agent/lib/servers, so if you remove that file, Gnus will
>> auto-agentize your servers.
>
> Ah, OK.  Right now it only contains the text nil, and no servers were
> agentized when I started Gnus.
>
> Can I delete everything in the ~/News/agent/ directory, except this
> file? 

Yes.  You can delete that file too, of course, but then some servers
will be auto-agentized when you restart.

>> The point of the patch is that auto-agentification only happens once
>> (unless you modify ~/News/agent/ manually).  I think if a user
>> remove ~/News/agent she wishes to start afresh, and
>> auto-agentification is useful in that case.
>
>> What do you think?  Can you suggest/describe a better logic that
>> does what you want?
>
> Well, for me auto-agentizing is unexpected behaviour, and I wouldn't
> wish it ever to occur.
>
> I want to agentize servers when I say J a in the *Server* buffer,
> and only then.

Then don't delete ~/News/agent/lib/servers and remove the
auto-agentized servers. :-)

I guess this could be customizable.  Cvs update again and customize
`gnus-agent-auto-agentize-methods' to an empty list.  Then you can
wipe out ~/News/agent/ and nothing will be auto-agentized.  I have
added this to the manual:

`gnus-agent-auto-agentize-methods'
     If you have never used the Agent before (or more technically, if
     `~/News/agent/lib/servers' does not exist), Gnus will
     automatically agentize a few servers for you.  This variable
     control which backends should be auto-agentized.  It is typically
     only useful to agentize remote backends.  The auto-agentizing has
     the same effect as running `J a' on the servers (see *note Server
     Agent Commands::).  If the file exist, you must manage the servers
     manually by adding or removing them, this variable is only
     applicable the first time you start Gnus.  The default is `(nntp
     nnimap)'.