From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50128 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap usage model Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 06:10:49 -0500 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 1045307390 12665 80.91.224.249 (15 Feb 2003 11:09:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:09:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kevin Greiner 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 18k0Cb-0003I9-00 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:09:49 +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 18k0E6-0008PL-00; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 05:11:22 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 15 Feb 2003 05:12:19 -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 FAA11596 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 05:12:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18k0BW-0003Ep-00 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:08:42 +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 18k0BV-0003Ee-00 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:08:41 +0100 Original-Lines: 59 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:DdqvKlDeakPzOZPhRlRK/aQiZEM= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50128 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50128 Thanks for your reply, Kevin Kevin Greiner writes: > 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. Hmm, I'll see if I can track that down. Could you elaborate on what you mean by "appear by default", and where the customization for the format specifier can be found? > 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. I'll consider that as an alternative; it might be preferable. > You're the first to describe newly downloaded articles as being marked > as "ancient". I think I was mis-describing the marks; the face used for ancient articles looks a lot like the one used for un-downloaded articles on NTEmacs when you don't use Courier New :( > Also that those articles are being highlighted. I don't think I ever mentioned the word "highlighted." > Try downloading the latest gnus-agent.el or set > gnus-agent-mark-unread-after-downloaded to t. Well, now I'm seeing some other bizzarre behavior. My relevant settings are now: gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups "INBOX" gnus-agent-cache t ; see NOTE below gnus-agent t gnus-agent-consider-all-articles t gnus-agent-expire-days 36500 gnus-agent-mark-unread-after-downloaded t I was looking at my INBOX and I decided to see how many read messages it was keeping, so I did `/ o 50' and the old messages appeared, but suddenly all the messages which were marked already-read were now marked undownloaded. Does anybody have an explanation for that? NOTE: also, I'm not really sure what I'm getting from gnus-agent-cache. All I can find in the documentation says "the agent is also a big cache!" Can somebody explain what that means? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com