Re: [Q]: Agent expiration and fetching

[Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>]

On 13 oct 2004, Kevin Greiner wrote:

> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I want to ask something which tends to make me crazy.
> > 
> > I set the gnus-agent-expiration to enabled. It expires
> > correctly but I sometimes, when 'J s'ing got old messages
> > just downloaded again.
> > 
> > How can I prevent this from happening ?
> 
> Set gnus-agent-consider-all-articles to nil.

Hmm:

,----[ C-h v gnus-agent-consider-all-articles RET ]
| gnus-agent-consider-all-articles's value is nil
| 
| [back]
`----
 
> > Subsidiary question: how can I cache all articles
> > automatically ?
> 
> The cache and the agent are redundant in that both create
> independent local copies of your articles. Are you sure that
> you want to do this?

Well, the goal is not to have redundant stuff but, as I
experiment things, I would like to be sure I do not loose
anything.

So the main idea, for instance, is to enter *ALL* unread/unseen
articles into the cache even if I already have fetched them in
the agent.

I tried this:

,----[ C-h v gnus-cache-enter-articles RET ]
| gnus-cache-enter-articles's value is 
| (ticked dormant unread unseen)
| 
| 
| Classes of articles to enter into the cache.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| Defined in `gnus-cache'.
| 
| [back]
`----

But that doesn't work.

Oh, and yes, I remove articles when read or expired from the
cache off course :/

What is wrong with this ?
 
> > And last, what is best to use: ticked/dormant articles or
> > cached ? (given the fact I have almost all agentized).
> 
> Personally, I either set a group to never expire from the agent
> (in which case I never cache those articles) or I expire after
> a short time but use the cache for long term storage. Which I
> do depends upon the percentage of articles that I expect to
> keep in a certain group.

Thank you for your feedback. There so many features I never ever
have visited before, I am almost thinking I am n00b :/

Regards.
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