From: Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@mb3.seikyou.ne.jp>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to manually download new mail with nnml-get-new-mail set to nil?
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:16:34 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejp2ds5p.fsf@mb3.seikyou.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tzy2yzse.fsf@ashbery.wjsullivan.net>
>>>>> "John" == John Sullivan <usenet@wjsullivan.net> writes:
John> 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!
John> It sounds like you might want to use group levels. You can
John> set your mail groups at one level and your news groups at
John> another level. I'm not positive you can set the mail groups
John> at a level such that they don't get checked on startup, but
John> I think so.
John> See (info "(gnus)Group Levels").
Hello John,
I tried to do this, and set the Mail groups all the 4 while news
groups are set to 3. Then, with "C-u 3 g" I expected to only look for
articles in groups with setting of 3 or lower. Nevertheless, mail was
downloaded regardless, sadly.
Should this be the expected behaviour? In other words, in this
instance gnus does not treat mail the same as newsgroups (I am using
gnus to fetch mail from my POP server). If I set the variable
nnml-get-new-mail to nil, then I find I cannot get new mail, even
with the M-g command. Very confusing!
So I am still using David Maze's suggestion of a command to reset this
variable whenever I want to download or avoid downloading mail!
If anyone has other ideas, please let me know here, I am thinking
surely others have resolved this problem - in other words, I think I
am missing something obvious.
--
G Hassenpflug
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-07 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-02 9:29 Gernot Hassenpflug
2007-02-02 14:29 ` David Z Maze
2007-02-03 0:45 ` Gernot Hassenpflug
2007-02-04 10:37 ` John Sullivan
2007-02-05 2:16 ` Gernot Hassenpflug
2007-02-07 13:16 ` Gernot Hassenpflug [this message]
2007-02-10 6:40 ` John Sullivan
2007-02-11 15:48 ` Gernot Hassenpflug
2007-02-11 16:54 ` Gernot Hassenpflug
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