Re: Gnusbie questions?

[Vasily Korytov <moderator@faqteam.org>]

>>>>> "RVM" == Richard V Molen writes:

 RVM> Perhaps, I've been the victim of 'just trying to get a quick
 RVM> start'.

You're lucky, you got so far. First time I saw Emacs (that was GNU Emacs
19.3x, I believe) it seemed to me an editor with unusable defaults. =))
Well, things are going more user-friendly and that's good.

But anyway, I think, Gnus manual is worth reading.

 RVM> However, the documentation can be difficult reading
 RVM> because I am not familiar with the some of the terminology. For
 RVM> instance, I thought that gnus left the mail on the server instead
 RVM> of downloading it to my hard drive. But I guess "fetching mail"
 RVM> means to download it rather than 'show me it to me, but leave it
 RVM> on the server.'

``Fetching mail'' means getting it, I believe.

 RVM> I want the mail to be left on the server.

Frankly, I don't know, it's possible with Gnus (I don't use similar
functinality at all, so I mostly ignore related threads). But you surely
can use a different utility to download mail (say, fetchmail+procmail
combo IMHO should work under Cygwin) to a place, where Gnus can read it.

Maybe you should search the archives of this newsgroup for the answer,
how to accompish it.

 RVM> Perhaps you are right, but on my WinNT box running Emacs 21.2 
 RVM> C-h v gnus-inhibit-startup-message <ret> gives me...

 RVM> gnus-inhibit-startup-message's value is t

 RVM> Documentation:
 RVM> not documented as a variable.

Probably, your Gnus is not yet loaded. Start Gnus and try again. On my
system it's as follows:

,----[ C-h v gnus-inhibit-startup-message RET ]
| `gnus-inhibit-startup-message' is a variable declared in Lisp.
|   -- loaded from "gnus"
| 
| Value: nil
| 
| Documentation:
| If non-nil, the startup message will not be displayed.
| This variable is used before `.gnus.el' is loaded, so it should
| be set in `.emacs' instead.
`----

 RVM> Vasily, thanks for your response.

You're always welcome! =))

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