From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50022 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap usage model Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:17:07 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.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 1044987407 9249 80.91.224.249 (11 Feb 2003 18:16:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:16:47 +0000 (UTC) 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 18iexY-0002Ol-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:16:44 +0100 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 18ieyN-0005mg-00; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:17:35 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:18:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA02519 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:18:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 28263 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2003 18:17:15 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28258 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2003 18:17:15 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 11 Feb 2003 18:17:15 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18if7U-00050J-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27:00 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-66-134-21-50.hstqtx02.covad.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1044988020 19238 66.134.21.50 (11 Feb 2003 18:27:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Feb 2003 18:27:00 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:tG2IGuBR8DdbAB7N34jgP3MvDNk= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50022 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50022 David Abrahams writes: > Niklas Morberg writes: > >> David Abrahams 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