From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nuke offline mode?
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:02:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wrd8o7i7.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADCnXoZf1octJRC-Z+_dYQ5-86U+CfAN2sVFsV05b44eknt+Lw@mail.gmail.com>
on Fri Sep 16 2011, Miles Bader <snogglethorpe-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/9/16 Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>:
>> On Fri, Sep 16 2011, Miles Bader wrote:
>
>>> Is there a simple setting I can use to completely and utterly disable
>>> offline mode,
>>
>> Just set `gnus-agent' to nil. Maybe the docs should explain ths more
>> prominently?
>
> Hmm, doesn't the "gnus agent" have other useful functions? I vaguely
> recall something about it like that... that it was for more than
> offline stuff.... maybe I'm just misremembering tho...
See the bottom paragraph below. Pretty cryptic, but it does imply that
you shouldn't disable the agent that way unless you like waiting.
,----[ C-h v gnus-agent RET ]
| gnus-agent is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
| Its value is t
|
| Documentation:
| Whether we want to use the Gnus agent or not.
|
| You may customize gnus-agent to disable its use. However, some
| back ends have started to use the agent as a client-side cache.
| Disabling the agent may result in noticeable loss of performance.
`----
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-16 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-16 2:35 Miles Bader
2011-09-16 6:11 ` Reiner Steib
2011-09-16 6:15 ` Miles Bader
2011-09-16 6:28 ` Miles Bader
2011-09-16 6:45 ` Reiner Steib
2011-09-16 15:02 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-09-16 7:39 ` Eric S Fraga
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