From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1918 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Temporarily turning off a pop server Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:59:38 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Message-ID: <84smvnvvhh.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84y95g72ex.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668539 13186 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:48:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:48:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:54 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1043135717 27202421 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:p7rdYtBBt5+QBjoE4zb3EL2WVVk= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2058 Original-Lines: 14 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2058 Tue Jan 17 17:29:54 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1918 Archived-At: 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!