Re: How to manually download new mail with nnml-get-new-mail set to nil?

[Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@mb3.seikyou.ne.jp>]

John Sullivan <usenet@wjsullivan.net> writes:

> Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@mb3.seikyou.ne.jp> writes:
>
>> I did not find any command relevant to downloading mail manually on
>> demand, so I am at the moment using the above variable set to nil on
>> gnus startup and then switch it to t when I want to download mail, and
>> then switch it back to nil again. Not very elegant!
>
> It sounds like you might want to use group levels. You can set your mail groups
> at one level and your news groups at another level. I'm not positive you can
> set the mail groups at a level such that they don't get checked on startup, but
> I think so.
>
> See (info "(gnus)Group Levels").

Hmmm, I'll give that a go. I think I'm using that (sorry it's my home
machine not the work one I'm using to post now) to make my mails
visible always, will check it out. Thanks for the tip.
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