From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51401 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Agent and mail Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:32:36 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <6uiswfhrqs.fsf@zork.zork.net> <6uhe922j1k.fsf@zork.zork.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050276807 18395 80.91.224.249 (13 Apr 2003 23:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Mon Apr 14 01:33:25 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194qyT-0004mY-00 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 01:33:25 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 194qy9-0003D0-00; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:33:05 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:34:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [64.157.176.121]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA20447 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:34:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 8658 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2003 23:32:50 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8653 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2003 23:32:49 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 13 Apr 2003 23:32:49 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 194qyM-0004bu-00 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 01:33:18 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: manchester-suites-iaf1047853.cust-rtr.ameritech.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1050276798 17391 68.23.64.46 (13 Apr 2003 23:33:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Apr 2003 23:33:18 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xaixlObK9Hai3Daq7x90i+l6QiU= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51401 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51401 Sean Neakums writes: > Kevin Greiner 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