Re: Gnus Agent and mail

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
>> Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> I think there ought to be an option to control whether or not the
>>> agent should queue mail--it seems easy to add, and it's clearly
>>> useful.
>>
>> While I agree with the intent, I don't like the idea of changing the
>> definition of gnus-plugged to cover every back-end EXCEPT imap.
>
> Hm?
>
> Gaute's suggestion wasn't to frob the IMAP behavior.  Just that
> message-send-mail-function be different.
>
> At least that's my understanding.

Actually, Sean's original description was of setting a server
parameter to always plug his mail server.  I'm not certain that that
works but he certainly expected it to.

Gaute did ask specifically about mail.  I checked and the agent
controls mail queuing/sending in the function gnus-agent-send-mail.
In that function gnus-plugged is the controlling variable.

Now then, some unasked questions.

First, if a mail backend is configured (by some as yet unspecified
mechanism) to post messages while unplugged.  How does it handle
fetching?  Should it act like it's unplugged or plugged?

Second, if I have multiple mail servers, should I be able to configure
each individually?

My answers were such that individual mail servers could be configured
to act as if they were always plugged.  At that point, I was one small
step from ANY server can be configured to be permanently plugged.


Kevin