Re: Topic-wise subscription of new newsgroups

[Stefan Kamphausen <skampi@gmx.de>]

Hi,

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 08 2005, Stefan Kamphausen wrote:
>
>>         (from ".* <?\\(.+\\)@office-address.example.*" "mail.office.\\1")
> [...]
>> However, whenever I receive an email of a new colleague (which has no
>> group associated) I can only see the new group when I do a
>> gnus-find-new-newsgroups manually.  But I'd like them so show up
>> immediately.  
>
> Did you try this suggestion from the manual?
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Subscription Methods") ]
> | `gnus-subscribe-topics'
> |      Put the groups into the topic that has a matching `subscribe' topic
> |      parameter (*note Topic Parameters::).  For instance, a `subscribe'
> |      topic parameter that looks like
> | 
> |           "nnslashdot"
> | 
> |      will mean that all groups that match that regex will be subscribed
> |      under that topic.
> `----

Well, no (about half an hour ago) and yes (now).  I put

(setq gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method 'gnus-subscribe-topics)

into my gnus-init-file and edited the topic parameters (using G c) so
that the edit window (G p) now shows the line

((subscribe . "nnmail"))

Unfortunately it still doesn't work.  A new group that had appeared
today was not showing up.  Only after M-x gnus-find-new-newsgroups it
did show up in the root-topic "Gnus".

It was a lucky coincidence that I had a new group to subscribe to
today for testing purposes.  I assume I could always test this by
first killing a group (S k) and then checking whether it shows up
again, right?

 > >
>> My preferred approach would be to use:
>> (setq gnus-parameters
>>       '(("^nnml.*"
>>          (gnus-show-threads nil)
>>          (gnus-check-new-newsgroups 'always))
>>        ))
>>
>> And while the first setting (gnus-show-threads) is working fine (which
>> tells me that the matcher works) the second does nothing.
>
> Finding and subscribing new newsgroups is done at startup or by using
> the function `gnus-find-new-newsgroup'.  I wouldn't expect that
> `gnus-check-new-newsgroups' makes any sense in context of specific
> groups or topics.

,----[ (info "(gnus)New Groups") ]
| If you are satisfied that you really never want to see any new groups,
| you can set `gnus-check-new-newsgroups' to `nil'.  This will also save
| you some time at startup.  Even if this variable is `nil', you can
| always subscribe to the new groups just by pressing `U' in the group
| buffer (*note Group Maintenance::).  This variable is `ask-server' by
| default.  If you set this variable to `always', then Gnus will query
| the back ends for new groups even when you do the `g' command (*note
| Scanning New Messages::).
`----

The behaviour described in the last sentence is what I'd like to
have. 

>>(how do you always add these nice boxes??) 
>
> Like the one above?
> [snip]
> See: http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/misc/rs-info.el

Yes, thanks for the pointer.  It needs boxquote.el from davep.org
which I had to fetch, too.  Me happy now :-)

Thanks and Regards 
Stefan Kamphausen
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