Re: Agent again

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> J s and "g" when plugged dont do the same thing for me. "J s" does
> something, but "plugged" groups dont get a new article count. "g" does
> get the new article count. What does, in the docs,
>
> "Fetch all articles and headers that are eligible for fetching."
>
> mean? I assumed all articles which pass the category predicate.
>
> I have a category "fun" with a predicate of "true". I am assuming this
> means fetch all articles. The groups in question are added to this
> category. Is that correct?
>

Yes

> Or another way of asking, what are the conditions that mean J s and g
> DONT do the same thing when plugged?

As I understand it:

g => query servers for info about any new articles that have
arrived. For 'mail-like' backends this may end up retrieving mail, for
nntp/nnimap it just updates article counts.

J s => download articles based on currently available headers according
to configured category predicates.

Informally: g means 'do I have anything new to read', and J s is 'download
stuff'.

Robert