Re: How to download all articles with the agent?

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com> writes:

> I've started to use the agent again after deleting my old
> stuff. How can I tell it to download all articles in a
> group?
>
> After starting gnus with the agent I pressed `J u' for one
> of my groups to download articles. I noticed that not all
> articles were downloaded.
>
> I went to the group buffer, pressed `J c'. Created a new
> category called `all'. Customized the group with `e', changed
> `Selection Predicate' to `true', selected a member group
> and pressed Done.
>
> When I do `J u' for this group, I expect all articles to be
> downloaded, but they are not.
>
> What to do?

Well to start with, the agent is actually smart enough (barely) to not
download articles that are already downloaded.

So, display the group's summary buffer.

Enter 'J S' to fetch all articles by predicate.  Articles that are no
longer available on your server will be marked as canceled (You MUST
be in the summary buffer for the agent to set article canceled marks).

If you still have undownloaded and uncanceled articles.  You can
either set download marks (@) or process marks(#) on all articles.
Personally, I'd move point to the first time then enter 'ESC 99999 #'
to process mark all articles.  Then enter 'J S' to fetch by download
mark or 'J s' to fetch by process mark.

BTW, the agent reads its parameters from the group's parameters, the
group's topic parameters, and then the group's agent category so it is
possible that your 'all' category was overridden.  If you want to
investigate the configuration further, you might try configuring the
agent parameters on the group's customization buffer
(gnus-group-customize or 'G c' in the group buffer).

Kevin