Re: Marking undownloaded articles as read

["Torsten Bronger" <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de>]

Halloechen!

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> "Torsten Bronger" <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
>> Halloechen!
>>
>> I use Gnus v5.9.0 in plugged/unplugged mode, and set up categories.  When I
>> fetch new articles, only some of the bodies are downloaded -- as expected.
>>
>> How can I achieve that the not downloaded articles (marked with an '@') are
>> totally gone, i.e. I don't see them in the summary, they aren't in the
>> respective sum in the groups buffer, and -- if no article was downloaded for
>> a group -- the group is invisible in the groups buffer as if it were empty.
>
> Torsten,
> The gnus agent is been though a number of iterations since v5.9. If
> you really want to use the agent, I'd recommend upgrading to Gnus Oort
> v0.15.

Thank you, I did it now.  Well, it brought some new difficulties (no unsolvable
though) but didn't do anything about the initial problem.  Anyway, here's what
I like to achieve:

1. Gnus starts in unplugged mode.  Done.

2. With J-j and 'g' I get new mail and info about new articles.  Done.  I can
   see the number of new articles for each group.  Am I correct that in this
   phase still no headers have been read?  Only the *numbers* of new articles?

3. With J-s I want Gnus to download all article bodies of some NGs, but only
   articles with special keywords in the subject for the other NGs.  This means
   that mostly no article of those NGs is fetched (the keywords are very rare).
   Then the NGs shouldn't appear in the *Groups* buffer, because is number of
   unread articles should be zero.

Exactly this last thing I don't manage to do with categories (mark-and-expunge
seems to be ignored).  Maybe I could use a plain and simple scorefile instead,
but I thought that categories alone would be better because then I can be sure
that the bodies aren't downloaded unnecessarily.  Am I wrong?

Tschoe,
Torsten.