Re: Start with particular servers offline?

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com> writes:

> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to keep a particular server in my select methods, but I only
>>>>>> want to connect to it when I explicitly say so.  Is there a way to keep
>>>>>> the server in the list, but have it start in offline or denied state?
>>>>>
>>>>> Put something like this in your .gnus.el file:
>>>>>
>>>>> (push '((nnimap "imap.gmail.com") denied) gnus-opened-servers)
>>>>
>>>> I added that as the last line in my .gnus.el
>>>>
>>>> It gives me two entries for the same server, with the 2nd one in the
>>>> 'denied' state.
>>>>
>>>> Robert
>>>>
>>>
>>> Cant you get the smae thing with levels and/or running in unplugged mode
>>> with that server not agentized? Or something like that ;)
>>
>> Perhaps, but putting all the groups from the server I want to stay
>> offline at a higher level feels hacky, and I don't use the agent.
>
> I would disagree with that. You dont want it opened as default,
> therefore, for me, it is at a different level.
>

Perhaps, but if I understand the proposal, I'd need to put those groups
as 'unsubscribed', so they wouldn't show up at all even if I were
connected to that server unless I did 6-L (and then they'd be prefixed
with 'U').

>>
>> Being able to set something like (server-startup-state denied) in the
>> server entry would be ideal, now if only someone would implement that
>> :)
>
> I assume from Lars' comment above that it has been implemented but maybe
> just doesn't work ;)

I think it's an ordering issue. The servers are added to
gnu-opened-servers after .gnus.el has been read, so gnus doesn't know
you want a particular one to be denied.

Robert