From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53326 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to download all articles with the agent? Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:44:21 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1057247074 11391 80.91.224.249 (3 Jul 2003 15:44:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1870@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 03 17:44:26 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 19Y6G2-0002wS-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 17:44:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Y6G7-0005Zt-00; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:44:31 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Y6G3-0005Zo-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:44:27 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 42737 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 2003 15:44:27 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 42732 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2003 15:44:27 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 3 Jul 2003 15:44:27 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Y6NR-0000zD-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 17:52:05 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-66-134-21-51.hstqtx02.covad.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1057247525 3794 66.134.21.51 (3 Jul 2003 15:52:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jul 2003 15:52:05 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5Hrw97O9p0jUJwro1rRiF4pNXgQ= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53326 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53326 Niklas Morberg 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