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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