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From: dsg@linus.mitre.org (David S. Goldberg)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: get new mail without new news
Date: 27 May 1997 14:39:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1baflglpy7.fsf@blackbird.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: John Twilley's message of 27 May 1997 13:18:12 -0400

> I'm trying out Gnus for news and mail, and came across something
> frustrating that I didn't see in an admittedly cursory glance
> through the documentation and source code.

Look a bit more closely, it's in there.

Set your mail group(s) to level 2 (news groups are level 3 by
default).  Then do a `2 g' to fetch only the mail groups when you want
to pull in new mail.

For limiting to email, this is what I do: I run M-x gnus-no-server
instead of M-x gnus.  This gives me a mail-only gnus.  When I want to
read news I do a `3 g' and all my nntp groups get fetched (as well as
any new mail that might be in my spool files).  Unfortunately there's
no way that I know of to only read news, but in general that's not
much of a problem.  I could probably separate them in topic mode and
hide the mail groups, but I have other uses for topics.  Anyway, when
I'm done with news, I do a `2 l' (note that's l, not g) and my gnus
session will only be for mail again (that is, typing g only fetches
from my mail spools).

--
Dave Goldberg
Post: The Mitre Corporation\MS B305\202 Burlington Rd.\Bedford, MA 01730
Phone: 617-271-3887
Email: dsg@mitre.org


  reply	other threads:[~1997-05-27 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-05-27 17:18 John Twilley
1997-05-27 18:39 ` David S. Goldberg [this message]
1997-05-27 19:09   ` John Twilley
1997-05-28  8:13     ` Steinar Bang
1997-05-28 15:53       ` Daniel Simms
1997-05-27 21:59   ` Mats Lidell
1997-05-27 18:46 ` Aaron Ucko
1997-05-27 22:34 ` Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
1997-05-30 20:23   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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