From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18760 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: How to stop Agent from fetching headers of uninteresting Groups? Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:58:39 -0500 Message-ID: <878tf8j1hs.fsf@moondust.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510675146 23354 195.159.176.226 (14 Nov 2017 15:59:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:59:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 14 16:58:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdbx-0005Mf-IY for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:58:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdc4-0003Be-Ku for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:59:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdc0-0003BO-VI for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:58:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdbv-0000Lj-U8 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:58:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36781 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdbv-0000J1-NI for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:58:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdbm-0004kN-9p for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:58:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:9ZnlqMRvT20V3l4F7y7mJeG42s8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18760 Archived-At: I use the Agent for reading news offline (because I don't have an Internet connection for many hours of the day). I only read a handful of news groups offline, but the Agent downloads the headers for every single group on my agentised servers. This takes about fifteen or twenty minutes every time I do `J s' because I have very many groups on those servers (most of which I only read about once a year). Downloading the actual news for the groups I'm interested in reading offline only takes about a minute, so it seems insane to download all these headers that I don't want. How can I tell the Agent to not download even the headers for a group? Currently I have one Agent category for each of my agentised groups. That is the "default" category and it is set to 0 (by the Agent when it first set itself up). For the groups I want to read offline I have group parameters that tell the Agent to retrieve all messages (I have a `true' predicate). It seems I need an Agent predicate that is more strongly negative than `false', something like `not-even-headers'. I suppose I might be asking the wrong question, since the Agent predicates are to tell the Agent which articles to get, it must have already retrieved the unwanted headers before it even starts applying the predicates. So I need a way of telling the Agent at a higher level not to even get the headers. But I don't see anything useful in the documentation. What am I missing? Thanks. Regards, N.