From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11128 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Twilley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: get new mail without new news Date: 27 May 1997 15:09:56 -0400 Sender: jmt@nda.auc.dk Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150890 28440 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:54:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:54:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA13286 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 14:20:49 -0700 Original-Received: from deanna.miranova.com (root@deanna [206.190.83.1]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA24465 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 14:18:10 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA27099 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 14:16:17 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA12263 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 16:15:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 21:10:02 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 30986 invoked by uid 504); 27 May 1997 19:10:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 30983 invoked from network); 27 May 1997 19:10:00 -0000 Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (qmailr@130.225.51.30) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 27 May 1997 19:09:59 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28175 invoked by uid 509); 27 May 1997 19:09:57 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.54/Emacs 19.34 Original-Path: nda.nda.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: nda.nda.com Original-Lines: 37 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1518 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11128 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11128 >>>>> "David" == David S Goldberg writes: [re: reading new mail without checking for new news] David> Look a bit more closely, it's in there. Well, this part is in there, yes. I wasn't clear. :-) David> Set your mail group(s) to level 2 (news groups are level 3 David> by default). Then do a `2 g' to fetch only the mail groups David> when you want to pull in new mail. How do you set a group's level? This is what wasn't clearly documented, where 'clearly documented' is defined as 'what I can find in a manual'. :-) David> For limiting to email, this is what I do: I run M-x David> gnus-no-server instead of M-x gnus. This gives me a David> mail-only gnus. When I want to read news I do a `3 g' and David> all my nntp groups get fetched (as well as any new mail David> that might be in my spool files). Unfortunately there's no David> way that I know of to only read news, but in general that's David> not much of a problem. I could probably separate them in David> topic mode and hide the mail groups, but I have other uses David> for topics. Anyway, when I'm done with news, I do a `2 l' David> (note that's l, not g) and my gnus session will only be for David> mail again (that is, typing g only fetches from my mail David> spools). Cool trick -- once I learn how to set levels for groups! Jack. -- John Twilley | Net Daemons Associates, Inc. | Voice: (617) 937-3338 jmt@nda.com | 800 West Cummings Park, Suite 2050 | Fax: (617) 937-3775 New Address! | Woburn, MA 01801 | Pager: (617) 671-7580