From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
Subject: Re: Setting the number of attempts to connect.
Date: 13 Nov 1995 23:48:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w8shh08qgg4.fsf@gymir.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Patrick Audley's message of Sat, 11 Nov 95 14:05:53 -0800
Patrick Audley <paudley@portal.ca> writes:
> I'm using a dialup to get news, which works well. Until I
> started using gnus to read mail. Now, if I'm offline and want to read
> my mail, I have to wait while gnus makes 20+ called to
> `open-network-stream' (which on my system means running the tcp
> program). I always connect to the nntp server on the first try (when
> I'm online), so is there a way to ask gnus to only try once? I've
> tried `gnus-no-server' but this seems not to display my backends.. :(
Put your mail groups on low levels, and all your other groups on
higher levels. Then start Gnus with `gnus-no-server'.
--
Home is where the cat is.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-11-13 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-11-11 22:05 Patrick Audley
1995-11-12 2:00 ` Robert Nicholson
1995-11-13 22:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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