From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17935 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B.V. Raghav" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to prevent gnus from always downloading full index Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:08:44 +0530 Message-ID: <87y4bjaw7v.fsf@think.bvr.lan> References: <6kwpr6efb6.fsf@shaula.iup.uni-bremen.de> <6kziw2ikh8.fsf@shaula.iup.uni-bremen.de> <87h9i9x0s8.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87a8o1mkkl.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87bn8hhvo2.fsf@think.bvr.lan> <87r3hcx216.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453383552 4729 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2016 13:39:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F8gren?=) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 21 14:39:05 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aMFS5-0005Iy-4y for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:39:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMFS4-0004FO-Fl for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55495) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMFS1-0004E2-Us for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMFRw-0008J6-SL for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:39:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.iitk.ac.in ([202.3.77.190]:60026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMFRw-0008Ic-Ct for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:38:56 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cc.iitk.ac.in (smtp.cc.iitk.ac.in [172.31.1.22]) by mail3.iitk.ac.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E6610000AB; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:08:45 +0530 (IST) Original-Received: from think (unknown [172.20.220.29]) (Authenticated sender: bvraghav) by smtp.cc.iitk.ac.in (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3F8D648; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:08:45 +0530 (IST) In-Reply-To: <87r3hcx216.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> ("Adam \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?Sj\=F8gren\=22's\?\= message of "Wed, 20 Jan 2016 06:17:41 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 202.3.77.190 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17935 Archived-At: Hi, I am sorry. >> and the C-h v gnus-fetch-old-headers value is nil ^^^^^ ^^^ This was from my box at home! and the one that misbehaved was the one that was at workplace. And indeed it had the same configuration error The erroneous behaviour was indeed because of (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers t) in the .gnus.el file Sorry for the noise. r -- (B.V. Raghav)