Re: How to stop Agent from fetching headers of uninteresting Groups?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) writes:

> At 13:57 -0800 on Thursday 2017-11-30, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>
>> nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) writes:
>>>
>>> How can I tell the Agent to not download even the headers for a
>>> group?
>>>
>>> It seems I need an Agent predicate that is more strongly
>>> negative than `false', something like `not-even-headers'.
>>
>> I don't think it's possible to do this presently -- looking at
>> `gnus-agent-fetch-group-1', the headers are indeed fetched
>> before the predicate is examined. In principle, however, there's
>> no reason why this wouldn't be possible: we could retrieve the
>> predicate higher up in the function, and ignore the group
>> altogether (unless some articles had been marked specifically
>> for downloading).
>>
>> I suggest using `gnus-bug' to report this and describe the
>> situation; hopefully someone will get to it!
>>
>> Eric
>
> Hi Eric, thank you for the response.
>
> Today I discovered `gnus-agent-handle-level' which I think I can
> use to do what I want.

Glad you got that sorted! I should have known there'd be an option like
that...

Eric