Re: Kevin's gnus-open-server changes

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> The manual is hard to understand and possibly misleading, but it's
> not really wrong.

:-)

Since the Gnus Agent doesn't do this the same way that other offline
readers does this, the manual should discuss that.  Patches, anyone?

> Maybe it would also be nice to offer an easy way of agentizing all
> servers where that makes sense (ie, those which talk over the
> network).  Something like a gnus-agent-add-all-servers command in the
> *Servers* buffer, perhaps.

Or just perhaps a command/toggle that would make `gnus-open-server'
work the way Kevin's changes made it work -- deny all servers from
trying to establish a network connection (whatever that may be) when
you flip the toggle.

(In general, this is an impossible task.  nnml may access stuff over
nfs/afs, but even if we ignore that, any of the mail backends may
include ange-ftp/tramp paths, which means that they really will do
network traffic even though you shouldn't think so.

But I think we may just ignore that complication.)

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen