From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35884 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Amos Gouaux Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A road map for Oort Gnus Date: 17 Apr 2001 10:09:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20010414065758.E47355@kens.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171563 5528 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:39:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 26578 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2001 15:09:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26568 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2001 15:09:57 -0000 Original-Received: from ns0.utdallas.edu (129.110.10.1) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Apr 2001 15:09:57 -0000 Original-Received: from spartacus.utdallas.edu (spartacus.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.11]) by ns0.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id 5DB9C1A05DA for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:09:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Christoph Rohland's message of "17 Apr 2001 10:49:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Original-Lines: 30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35884 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35884 >>>>> On 17 Apr 2001 10:49:14 +0200, >>>>> Christoph Rohland (cr) writes: cr> 1) Consistency of options: There are way too many different locations cr> where the same information is stored. Two examples: Cached and cr> agentized messages, information on the mail server in the various cr> select message variables and in .newsrsc.eld. Perhaps there's a way to do this and I just haven't stumbled onto it yet, but how do you update or alter a server listed in gnus-secondary-select-methods? I wanted to alter the settings for an IMAP server I'm using, and ran into much difficulty. At the time I guessed it was because things are so hardcoded in the .newsrsc.eld. cr> Don't get me wrong: Gnus is still the best mailreader I know of but cr> there is a lot room for improvement. I love it too. Though, when a member of our group asked about it (being frustrated with PINE), I kinda cringed because it has taken me quite a bit of time fiddling with things to get them close to what I want, and typically I've found folks too impatient for that kind of effort. One thing I'd like to see, and I know it came up before, the ability to only download parts of a message. That's one thing IMAP is really nice for. Though I realize this gets back to the dependency of the backend stuff. -- Amos