From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50204 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap usage model Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:19:49 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84wuk1togu.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84bs1c1be3.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 1045758212 20692 80.91.224.249 (20 Feb 2003 16:23:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:23:32 +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 18ltTu-0005NZ-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:23:30 +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 18ltQx-0001ou-00; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:20:27 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:21:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA23459 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:21:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ltQZ-00055J-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:20:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ltQX-00054h-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:20:01 +0100 Original-Lines: 60 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vRUHdpkyG5J5uKHXy9rovbjzwCE= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50204 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50204 First I just want to thank you guys for your responsiveness and the attention you've given to this issue... kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > David Abrahams writes: > >> That helps a bit, but I'm still in the dark. If I had >> gnus-agent-cache == nil (the default), > > It seems that the default is t, not nil. Whoops. >> I wouldn't be able to use `J s'? Or what? > > Well, err. As I understand it, frobbing gnus-agent-cache influences Sorry: frobbing? > the behavior for the plugged case only. So you could set > gnus-agent-cache to nil, then you could use `J s' to fetch articles > and headers. But as long as you're online, Gnus won't use those > local copies when you enter a group and so on. Instead, the headers > will be fetched again. Seems rather pointless, doesn't it? > When you go unplugged, the local copies will be used, of course -- > Gnus can't use the remote ones, after all. > > Suppose you're online. You enter a group, then quit it, then enter > it again. > > When gnus-agent-cache is nil, then Gnus will fetch headers from the > server, show the summary buffer. Then you quit the summary. Then > you enter it again and Gnus will fetch the headers from the server > again. > > When gnus-agent-cache is t, then Gnus will fetch headers from the > server, then show the summary buffer. Gnus will also store the > just-fetched headers locally. Then after you exit and then re-enter > the group, Gnus will use the local copies of the headers, instead of > fetching them again. That sounds like what I want. > I'm not sure whether Gnus will store the just-fetched headers locally > only when gnus-agent-cache is t, or whether this storing also happens > when gnus-agent-cache is nil. Any expert out there? > > Maybe the documentation should be improved. Thanks again for looking at this. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com