Re: nnimap usage model

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com> writes:
>
>> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>>
>>> basically he keeps a local copy of all of his messages for
>>> fast searching, and so that he can easily work
>>> "unplugged".
>>
>> I'm after this functionality myself and use the agent like
>> so:
>>
>>  '(gnus-agent t)
>>  '(gnus-agent-consider-all-articles t)
>>  '(gnus-agent-expire-days 36500)
>>  '(gnus-agent-mark-unread-after-downloaded nil)
>>
>> There are a couple of problems with this approach: e.g. I
>> have to run gnus-agent-regenerate a couple of times each day
>> since something gets out of whack, and the summary buffer
>> gets terribly confused at times and displays messages that
>> are just not there.
>>
>> I haven't had the time to look more closely at when these
>> problems occur, so I can't be more specific. I'm a lot less
>> happy with gnus since I started using the agent, though :(
>
> This is so sad :(.  It doesn't sound like your arrangement is worth
> the likely frustration.

Actually most people appear to be happy with the agent.  Niklas is
just one of an apparently small group that are having trouble.

Also Kai suggested that you check the manual for "unplugged" because your
config settings (i.e. (setq gnus-use-cache t)) has nothing to do with
the agent.  

The minimum that you should need to do is as follows:
1) In the group buffer, enter '^' to open the server buffer.
2) Move point to the server that you want to agentize.
3) Enter 'J a' to agentize the server.
4) Enter 'q' to return to the group buffer.
5) Open the group.
6) Select articles for downloading using '@'.  You should see a '%'
   mark appear next to each article.
7) Enter 'J u' to fetch the selected articles.
8) Read the manual as the agent can do quite a bit more than this.

Kevin