Re: second(ary) imap server

[Andreas Muck <ml@chapulin.de>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

>On 10 Mar 2001, Andreas Muck wrote:
>
>> I just added a second nnimap select method, but I'd like gnus NOT to
>> contact this server until I tell it to check for new mail.
>
>If it's a seconday server, then you might be out of luck.  I think
>Gnus always contacts secondary servers to ask them for new groups.

Yes, I guess you're right.

>But the first thing to try is to frob the levels.  The variable
>gnus-activate-level says that groups with this level (or a smaller
>number) are activated on startup.  If you `S l' all groups from a
>server to a (numerically) higher value, then Gnus will not try to
>check these groups.

I did this - set gnus-activate-level to 3 and the group to 5. The
group was not activated at startup, but Gnus still contacted the
server.

>If Gnus contacts the server anyway, then you might have to take it out
>of gnus-secondary-select-methods and to create a foreign server from
>the server buffer.

But this did the trick (combined with gnus-activate-level). Cool!
Looks like gnus-group-get-new-news respects gnus-activate-level too,
cos it didn't contact the server even when I hit "g".

That's just what I wanted!

Thank you :)
Andi