Re: Can Gnus handle multiple ISPs?

[Jens.Schmidt27@epost.de (Jens Schmidt)]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Jens.Schmidt27@epost.de (Jens Schmidt) writes:
> 
> > Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
> >> Add both servers in g-s-s-m and frob the connectedness in the server
> >> buffer.
> >
> > But that does not give me offline reading of articles for the
> > disconnected servers, right?
> 
> If you use the Agent and downloads messages before disconnecting; yes,
> it would.

Ok, then let me fill in the details to see whether the following
scenario is correct:

o I keep servers for ISP A and ISP B in g-s-s-m and agentize the
  groups belonging to both of them.

o I connect to, say, ISP A and start Gnus plugged.  Since I am
  not connected to ISP B I will have wait for the timeout to kick
  in to get my Group-buffer (on my NT box I haven't been
  successfull with C-g to cancel the connection process for an
  absent server).  That's, um, a little bit annoying.

o I do a J s and get the articles saved for ISP A.

o I close ISP A in the server buffer, disconnect from ISP A and
  connect to ISP B, follwed by "O" in the server buffer to force
  an open for the server of ISP B.

o (Note that I haven't unplugged the agent so far.)  Now, I can
  automagically access the groups from ISP A through the agent?!
  I thought the agent "redirects" group access in unplugged mode
  only?  Or do I have to disconnect from ISP B, too, and unplug
  Gnus to access all articles?  That would be even more annoying
  in my case, since im connected to ISP B most of the time, anyway.

Thanks for your help,

Jens