From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29489 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Darcy Brockbank Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: the laborious bootstrap process Date: 13 Mar 2000 10:28:54 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166150 3010 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:09:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1919BD051E for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:32:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB32328; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:30:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:28:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA14101 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:28:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from dara.hasc.com (dara.hasc.com [206.186.200.6]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32502D051E for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:28:56 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from ns.hasc.com (root@mailhost.hasc.com [206.186.200.129]) by dara.hasc.com (8.9.3/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA24064 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:28:55 -0500 Original-Received: from bleys.hasc.com (bleys.hasc.com [172.19.160.5]) by ns.hasc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA11112 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:28:54 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from samurai@localhost) by bleys.hasc.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id KAA04422; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:28:54 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29489 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29489 I'm in the process of moving from a graphical mail package, to GNUS for email... So, I'm struggling through the wide array of lisp variables and attempting to get GNUS customized to fit my needs. I've been unable to get some simple questions answered, so I'm going to bounce them around here to see if I can't get some help :-). I'd like to: (1) Run a spellchecker before sending mail. Has anyone hooked ispell to GNUS? (2) I'd like to have it poll my mail server for new mail every five minutes or so, rather than having me do this manually. I can't seem to find anything to set this behaviour. (3) This is shameful of me, but I can't seem to find out how to read a mail message which has been marked read, and is no longer shown, but has not been expired. Something like a "show all read articles". (4) I've been playing with the 'gnus-read-active-file' variable, and the values t, nil, and some all have pretty much the same result. The active file from my news server is about 1M, and takes about 10 minutes to get here. I'm only interested in reading one newsgroup, and don't ever want to hear about others. What's the proper way of dealing with this? Sorry if these are FAQable or whatever. I'm drowning in information and settings and need to establish a foothold. - darcy -- Shameless Plug: http://www.quicken.com/quickenquoteslive/