Re: nnimap usage model

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

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

> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Wow, combined with Niklas' formula this actually seems to be doing
>> something useful!

One word of warning. Setting gnus-agent-mark-unread-after-downloaded
to nil triggers a bug in the the agent.  I've checked-in a patch but
will need some early adopters to verify that it works for all.

> The really odd thing now is that all the articles I newly download
> seem to be immediately marked as "ancient"; they show up weirdly
> colored in the summary buffer.
>
> Anybody have a clue why that could be?

The agent has three faces and a format specifier to highlight articles
that have NOT been downloaded.  The faces appear by default while the
format specifier must be added through customization.

If you don't like using colors to indicate the undownloaded articles,
you can customize gnus-summary-highlight.  Just remove the three cons
cells that refer to gnus*undownloaded-face.

If you want to use +/- markers you can add %O to gnus-summary-line-format.

You're the first to describe newly downloaded articles as being marked
as "ancient".  Also that those articles are being highlighted.  Try
downloading the latest gnus-agent.el or set
gnus-agent-mark-unread-after-downloaded to t.

Kevin