From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51984 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Agent and mail Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:12:20 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <6uiswfhrqs.fsf@zork.zork.net> <8465phob8k.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87d6jk1flj.fsf@cam.ac.uk> <84bryp9vbx.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051668704 1762 80.91.224.249 (30 Apr 2003 02:11:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 02:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M527@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Apr 30 04:11:43 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 19Ah4R-0000SC-00 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 04:11:43 +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 19Ah5N-0005tx-00; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Ah5F-0005tr-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:12:33 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 47010 invoked by alias); 30 Apr 2003 02:12:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 47005 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2003 02:12:32 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2003 02:12:32 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19AhD1-0000J6-00 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 04:20:35 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: manchester-suites-iaf1047853.cust-rtr.ameritech.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1051669235 1183 68.23.64.46 (30 Apr 2003 02:20:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Apr 2003 02:20:35 GMT In-Reply-To: <84bryp9vbx.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann's?= message of "Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:28:34 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.09002 (Oort Gnus v0.20) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fq265h4gPYEB/CrYg51JZ5WJrG4= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51984 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51984 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Kevin Greiner writes: > >> Gaute B Strokkenes 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