Re: Gnus Agent and mail

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
>> Now, here's my problem.  The definition of "unplugged" in the manual
>> is as follows:
>>
>>   The Gnus Agent is said to be "unplugged" when you have severed the
>>   connection to the net (and notified the Agent that this is the case).
>>   When the connection to the net is up again (and Gnus knows this), the
>>   Agent is "plugged".
>>
>> Now then, if you've severed your connection to the net, how do you
>> intend to send your mail?
>
> I hadn't, but I had set the agent unplugged so that it wouldn't poll
> the covered servers when I hit 'g', just my mail (I have ':plugged t'
> set on my mail sources).  At least, that is my recollection of the
> situation; I switched to noffle a while ago and no longer use the
> Agent.

OK, thanks for the info.

In case anyone else is following this thread, I believe that you could
have gotten the behavior that you desired by subscribing to your
servers at different levels.  The 'g' command would then ignore those
groups whose level was higher than your default level.  Sorry that I
can't explain better, it's not a feature that I personally use.

Kevin