From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3943 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Setting the number of attempts to connect. Date: 13 Nov 1995 23:48:27 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <9511112205.AA0093@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144761 28052 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:12:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA14059 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:35:55 -0800 Original-Received: from gymir.ifi.uio.no (4867@gymir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.80.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 23:48:29 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by gymir.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 23:48:28 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Patrick Audley's message of Sat, 11 Nov 95 14:05:53 -0800 Original-Lines: 15 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3943 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3943 Patrick Audley 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.