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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus agent observations
Date: 08 Feb 1998 16:00:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3afc2w38q.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Gisle Aas's message of "13 Jan 1998 14:18:34 +0100"

Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> writes:

>   1) I sometimes go plugged, fetch mail&news headers with 'g' and then go
>      unplugged without downloading news ('J' 's').  If I then visit an
>      nntp group the articles disappear (probably because they do not
>      exists within the ~/News/agent area).   It would be better if
>      they were just marked as undownloaded (@).

Gnus can't do that, since it doesn't have the headers for the group.

>   3) Can I make Gnus queue News messages, but just send mail even if
>      unplugged (and let sendmail do the queuing).

Uhm...  nope.  Well, yes, but it would take some fiddling.

>   5) Is the category called 'default' used for all
>      groups that does not belong to any category or is the 'short'
>      predicate always the default.  If the former, then perhaps
>      the number in the category list should show something else
>      than 0 and adding groups to 'default' disallowed.

It is the former.  Displaying a "real" number for that category is a
bit tricky, since that would mean having to iterate over all the
groups to see how many there are, and then subtracting all the groups
belonging to the other categories.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


      parent reply	other threads:[~1998-02-08 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-01-13 13:18 Gisle Aas
1998-01-15  9:48 ` Francois Felix Ingrand
1998-02-08 15:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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