Re: Offline mail and group cooperation

[dme@dme.org]

* Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE [2002-09-26 09:14:20]
> torkel@acc.umu.se (Björn Torkelsson) writes:
>
>> When I read a mail, it's entered into the cache. When I delete the
>> mail (either when I mark it as expirable, or when it's expired) it is
>> also deleted from the cache. 
>
> I think this does NOT happen by default when you are plugged.  You
> need to explicitly invoke some command to download messages.
>
> But your suggestion is good: there should be a mode where Gnus works
> this way.

I've used the following settings for a while to "aggressively" cache
things.  When I'm offline articles I've already seen can be loaded
from the cache.  It works well, though I do end up with lots of data
in the cache.  So far this hasn't been a problem (disks are large !).

I _think_ that you need to use a version of gnus which has the
combined cache/agent stuff, but I'm not really sure (it's in Oort I
believe).

(setq
 ; needs to be "t" for the cache to have any effect
 gnus-use-cache t
 ; only cache these groups
 gnus-cacheable-groups "^nnimap\\|^nntp"
 ; this means that all articles which are read will be stored in the
 ; cache, as well as the default set - good for ad-hoc offline
 ; re-reading
 gnus-cache-enter-articles '(ticked dormant unread read)
 gnus-cache-remove-articles nil
 )