Re: Temporarily turning off a pop server

Re: Temporarily turning off a pop server

[Victor S. Miller]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> writes:

Kai> Can you C-g when Gnus hangs on that server?  Does it do anything
Kai> useful?

Kai> I don't know the answer, but if C-g works, it might be a
Kai> workaround.  -- Ambibibentists unite!

Kai, I can C-g, but that usually results in all my nnml: groups having
'*' where the number of unread posts usually is (is there a proper
name for that state?).  And, I don't really know which of the two pop
servers is the one hanging.

Victor

Re: Temporarily turning off a pop server

[Kai Großjohann]

victor@algebraic.org (Victor S. Miller) writes:

> Kai, I can C-g, but that usually results in all my nnml: groups having
> '*' where the number of unread posts usually is (is there a proper
> name for that state?).  And, I don't really know which of the two pop
> servers is the one hanging.

I see, so C-g doesn't do anything useful.  Hm.  So the best idea I
can come up with is to have functions which let-bind mail-sources,
then invoke gnus-group-get-new-news.  You could have two such
functions, one for getting mail from server 1, the other for server
2.  The default value of mail-sources could be to contact neither server.
-- 
Ambibibentists unite!