From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Something similar to offlineimap for news server (gmane) and smtp?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:08:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fvdr1kyv.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvdvwdsl.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:38:50 +0100")
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Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
> Hi Rainer,
>
>> I really like my mail setup with offlineimap. There are only two
>> things I would like to have:
>>
>> 1) something similar to offlineimap for gmane, so that I can download
>> my news into a local news server and then read it when offline and
>
> As others already suggested, using the gnus agent is probably the best
> approach (and I also use that). But anyway, similar to offlineimap but
> for newsgroups is the local newsserver leafnode. In that, you can
> configure many remote nntp servers, say, gmane and the one you use for
> traditional nntp groups, and then you simply connect to localhost from
> within gnus and see all usenet and gmane groups.
>
>> 2) a local smtp relay (I think this is the right word) to which I can
>> send email but which is really sending them out once I am online (or
>> can I do this in gnus?)
>
> When you save a mail/posting during composition, it'll be stored in your
> drafts group. So if you are offline, just save it and kill the buffer.
> Then you can send it later when you're online again.
>
> Of course, that's far from automatic but it works well enough for me.
> The good thing about it that you can be really sure if and when your
> mails have been sent.
Thanks - this all makes sense and I will use see if I can get
comfortable with this approach.
Cheers,
Rainer
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-18 15:02 Rainer M Krug
2014-10-18 15:10 ` Rainer M Krug
2014-10-18 15:23 ` Glyn Millington
2014-11-07 9:28 ` Rainer M Krug
2014-10-18 15:25 ` Adam Sjøgren
2014-11-07 9:24 ` Rainer M Krug
2014-10-19 2:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-11-07 9:11 ` Rainer M Krug
2014-10-21 8:32 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-11-07 9:10 ` Rainer M Krug
2014-11-07 9:38 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-10 9:08 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
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