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From: "Andrzej A. Filip" <andrzej.filip@gmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Prevent Gnus from checking for news at startup?
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:01:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3y8pwzg7df@eag4.huge.strangled.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2vbnkia6q.fsf@paulwrankin.com> (Paul Rankin's message of "Thu,  16 Oct 2014 20:24:45 +1000")

Paul Rankin <hello@paulwrankin.com> wrote:
> How do I prevent Gnus from checking for new news at startup? Ideally
> just build the Group buffer then press `g' to connect.

You may start emacs with gnus in offline mode.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Gnus-Unplugged.html

I use it with local IMAP not handled by gnus agent and a few remote IMAP and
NNTP accounts manually turned on online as required.

-- 
A. Filip


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-16 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-16 10:24 Paul Rankin
2014-10-16 14:01 ` Andrzej A. Filip [this message]
2014-10-17  8:27   ` Paul Rankin
2014-10-17  9:07     ` Andrzej A. Filip
2014-10-17  9:50       ` Paul Rankin
     [not found] <mailman.11269.1413455420.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-10-16 11:32 ` Damien Wyart

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