From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18773 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to stop Agent from fetching headers of uninteresting Groups? Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:13:53 -0800 Message-ID: <87efo6cvfy.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <878tf8j1hs.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <87indrsa3m.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87374mmvu5.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 1512666850 31219 195.159.176.226 (7 Dec 2017 17:14:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 17:14:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 07 18:14:05 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 1eMzkK-0007zX-T3 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:14:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33486 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMzkR-0000HX-VN for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:14:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47819) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMzkO-0000GZ-UE for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:14:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMzkJ-0005wo-UM for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:14:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47020 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMzkJ-0005ti-NU for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:14:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eMzk7-0007dA-8M for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:13:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ua/loONrSTq/2gHcAfyLrRRkBvc= 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:18773 Archived-At: 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