From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29490 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: the laborious bootstrap process Date: 13 Mar 2000 10:48:38 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166151 3016 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:09:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD33D051E for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:51:49 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB28036; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:49:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:48:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA14218 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:48:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from beaver.jprc.com (BEAVER.JPRC.COM [207.86.147.217]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E101D051F for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:48:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by beaver.jprc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA09031; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:48:39 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "5(T0tZd{6}pd~YzBG8O/*EW,.]6]@`m^e;fv65W^Y&=d"M\1H}>T~4_.kcDD.O~y3k)a6h R;Nmi>9|>Nm${2IpM0^RcUEa\jcq?KOP)C&~x51l~zCHTulL^_T|u0I^kB'z@]{`2YjQu In-Reply-To: Darcy Brockbank's message of "13 Mar 2000 10:28:54 -0500" Original-Lines: 65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) XEmacs/21.2 (Iris) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29490 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29490 Darcy Brockbank writes: > (1) Run a spellchecker before sending mail. Has anyone hooked ispell > to GNUS? You should be able to sic an appropriate ispell-* function on message-send-hook. > (2) I'd like to have it poll my mail server for new mail every > five minutes or so, rather than having me do this manually. I > can't seem to find anything to set this behaviour. My choice, slurped out of gnu.emacs.gnus quite some time back, and then modified to my personal taste: ;; ;; automatic mail scan without manual effort. ;; ;; level-specified group scanner. (defun gnus-demon-scan-mail-or-news-and-update (level) "Scan for new mail, updating the *Group* buffer." (let ((win (current-window-configuration))) (unwind-protect (save-window-excursion (save-excursion (when (gnus-alive-p) (save-excursion (set-buffer gnus-group-buffer) (gnus-group-get-new-news level))))) (set-window-configuration win)))) ;; ;; level 2: only mail groups are scanned. (defun gnus-demon-scan-mail-and-update () "Scan for new mail, updating the *Group* buffer." (gnus-demon-scan-mail-or-news-and-update 2)) (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail-and-update 5 nil) ;; ;; level 3: mail and local news groups are scanned. (defun gnus-demon-scan-news-and-update () "Scan for new mail, updating the *Group* buffer." (gnus-demon-scan-mail-or-news-and-update 3)) (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-news-and-update 20 20) Then I put personal mail on level 1, mailing lists on level 2, and basic NNTP groups on level 3. Look at what `S l' does in *Group*. Default creation level is 3. > (3) This is shameful of me, but I can't seem to find out how to > read a mail message which has been marked read, and is no longer > shown, but has not been expired. Something like a "show all read > articles". Enter a group with an argument: `C-u 250 SPC'. Previously-read messages are marked in *Summary* with `O' ("old") and are usually blue. > (4) I've been playing with the 'gnus-read-active-file' variable, and > the values t, nil, and some all have pretty much the same result. > The active file from my news server is about 1M, and takes about > 10 minutes to get here. I'm only interested in reading one > newsgroup, and don't ever want to hear about others. What's the > proper way of dealing with this? Odd. Mine is set to 'some, and I have no trouble with this. Just a shot in the dark: Did you properly quote in your setting? (setq gnus-read-active-file 'some)