Re: separating reading new mail and news

[jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson)]

>>>>> "SK" == Saileshwar Krishnamurthy <krish@cs.purdue.edu> writes:

SK> It'll be nice if the fuctions for reading mail and news were
SK> separated instead of one group-get-new-news.

No, just keep your mail groups at a lower level than your news groups.  

Each group has a level, from 1-9, indicating its "subscribedness."  A low
level is highly subscribed and a level of 9 is dead as a doornail.

This definition might help too:

gnus-group-get-new-news: an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus'.
(gnus-group-get-new-news &optional ARG)

Get newly arrived articles.
If ARG is a number, it specifies which levels you are interested in
re-scanning.  If ARG is non-nil and not a number, this will force
"hard" re-reading of the active files from all servers.


As you can see, the thing to do is set all your mail groups to level 1,
say, and then do C-u 1 g in the Group buffer.  I've tied this to M-x m, in
order to override the default mail agent, Rmail.  Set levels with S l in
the group buffer.

The default level for subscribed mail and news is 3.

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