From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52108 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Bug in documentation Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 20:13:46 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <877k9a8s30.fsf@smtp.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051812804 31060 80.91.224.249 (1 May 2003 18:13:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 18:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M651@lists.math.uh.edu Thu May 01 20:13:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19BIYG-000839-00 for ; Thu, 01 May 2003 20:13:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19BIZE-0007nd-00; Thu, 01 May 2003 13:14:00 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19BIZ6-0007nX-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 01 May 2003 13:13:52 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 73652 invoked by alias); 1 May 2003 18:13:52 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 73647 invoked from network); 1 May 2003 18:13:52 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 1 May 2003 18:13:52 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h41IDkbU020886 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Thu, 1 May 2003 20:13:47 +0200 Original-To: Jaap-Henk Hoepman Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030501:jhh@cs.kun.nl:c8c5b6629b00e8c3 X-Hashcash: 0:030501:jhh@cs.kun.nl:c8c5b6629b00e8c3 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030501:ding@gnus.org:011a31e3c394ff2c X-Hashcash: 0:030501:ding@gnus.org:011a31e3c394ff2c In-Reply-To: <877k9a8s30.fsf@smtp.xs4all.nl> (Jaap-Henk Hoepman's message of "Thu, 01 May 2003 20:00:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.09002 (Oort Gnus v0.20) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52108 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52108 Jaap-Henk Hoepman writes: > In the info files, node "Agent Basics" it says: > > * You then decide to see whether any new news has arrived. You > connect your machine to the net (using PPP or whatever), and then > hit `J j' to make Gnus become "plugged" and use `g' to check for > new mail as usual. To check for new mail in unplugged mode, see > (*Note Mail Source Specifiers::). > > However, in the node "Mail Source Specifiers" there is no such > information. There is: `:plugged' If non-`nil', fetch the mail even when Gnus is unplugged. If you use directory source to get mail, you can specify it as in this example: (setq mail-sources '((directory :path "/home/pavel/.Spool/" :suffix "" :plugged t))) Gnus will then fetch your mail even when you are unplugged. This is useful when you use local mail and news. > And anyway, is there any point in checking for mail in unplugged > mode? I mean, the local machine is supposed to be offline, no? I think it is easier to understand how Gnus works if you think about unplugged referring to the server, not the client. It is possible and useful to have some servers unplugged and some servers not. In that scenario, it may be useful to fetch mail even when you are unplugged.