Re: diret imap and agentised imap in sync

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@giotto.sj.ru> writes:

> It seems it works better if I 
> 1. Set gnus plugged ('J j')
> 2. Check groups ('g')
> 3. Fetch groups ('J s')
> 3. unplug gnus and read news
>
> But it is much more comfortable to keep gnus always unplugged and
> fetch articles with external program.

Aha!  Now it rings a bell with me.  Ages ago I wrote the following
(now probably quite outdated) function to fetch news/mail for me:

(defun kai-gnus-agent-do ()
  (let ((gnus-verbose 5))
    (message "Kai: fetching Agent session.")
    (flet ((y-or-n-p (prompt) t)
           (yes-or-no-p (prompt) t))
      (gnus-agent-batch))
    ;(gnus-agent-fetch-session)
    (message "Kai: starting Gnus")
    (gnus)
    (message "Kai: sending drafts")
    (gnus-group-send-drafts)
    (message "Kai: synchronizing flags")
    (gnus-agent-synchronize)
    (message "Kai: fetching agent stuff")
    (gnus-agent-batch)
    (message "Kai: exiting Gnus")
    (gnus-group-exit)
    (save-buffers-kill-emacs t)))

I called this function from "emacs -batch" (I think).  (Now I don't
use it anymore.)  It seems that I'm doing what you discovered is
necessary.  Maybe the gnus-agent-batch function should be augmented to
do what the above does.

kai
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