Re: marking articles when reading them

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

On 31 Oct 2000, amos+lists.ding@utdallas.edu wrote:
> 
> What I'd like to see, to go along with `(display . all)', is
> something like `gnus-no-more-than-x-messages'.  This might be set to
> a small value, like a couple of hundred or so, for faster folder
> access.  Then if I wanted more of the messages, I could just do `C-u
> M-g', and it would prompt me for how many messages to include.

Does (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 423) do the job?

> Actually, I still use PINE or something to dig around in folders if
> I want to find something particular.  One difficulty I have with
> gnus/nnimap is that if I have *all* my folders listed in my
> .newsrc.eld, starting up gnus hits the mail server rather hard as it
> goes and digs through that long folder list of mine.  So I try to
> keep gnus only knowledgeable about the folders that I frequently
> access, which means I use another IMAP client to quickly query
> something.

You can kill some groups, then Gnus won't query the server about
them.  But you have to use `j' in the group buffer to jump to them, or
`A k' to get a list of all killed groups.

But there is a potential problem with nnimap.  When you start Gnus,
does it say `checking mailbox foo' or does it say `updating info for
foo'?  The former is dramatically faster than the latter.

kai
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