Re: agent and mail

["Kai Großjohann" <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>]

RXmi FACKEURE <ref@linuxfreak.com> writes:

> Here is another thing i do not get. Well I set gnus-agentize and it
> seems to work. I lauchn gnus with gnus-unplugged, but then i cannot
> receive new mail, even local mail, being unplugged. And if i plug it
> checks the nntp server too which Gnus will never find because i'm not
> connected via ppp.

This is normal behavior.  Gnus just expects that people who use the
agent have a dialup connection and can't receive mail when unplugged,
either.

If you wish to have a semi-plugged behavior, maybe you'll be better
off installing Leafnode on your machine and then using Gnus normally
(ie plugged) but point it at the Leafnode on your machine.

> another thing, still in Agent, how could i edit a message send with agent ?
>  You know it is dropped in Drafts before being really sent, and this way you
>  can edit it... Actually, i swith to draft-mode and thne chekc with g to see
>  the messages in the drafts.queue and open the box and perform a D e 
> command but how to resend or better queue again the message ?
> Actually a C-c C-c queues an answer to the message i wanted to edit...

Strange.  I would expect `D e' then editing, then `C-c C-c' to do the
right thing.

> oh, btw, what ia a "hook" ? I do not now nothing about eamcs, lisp and 
> i really wonder what this stuff is :-)

A hook is just a variable, but it contains Lisp code rather than a
number of a string.  And most Emacs packages are written such that
they execute the code in such variables at predefined points during
their operation.  Gnus has a lot of hooks.  With hooks, you can do
more customization than by just setting other variables -- you can
write a function which does stuff based on the phase of the moon, say,
and then add this function to a hook, and soon you have an Emacs with
behavior dependent on the phase of the moon!

Together with midnight.el this might be a way to remind one when one's
girlfriend is likely to be petulant (? right word?) ;-)

kai
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