Re: more graceul failure mode for Gnus when no connected to network?

Re: more graceul failure mode for Gnus when no connected to network?

[Francis Litterio]

Ed <ed@telestoconsulting.com> writes:

> I have Gnus on my laptop. Sometimes I want to get at my old mail
> messages without being connected to the internet. When I start up Gnus
> I get an error message for every NNTP and POP3 server, and I have to
> answer y I want to continue, for each one.
>
> Is there some way to start up Gnus in an unconnected state, so that it
> doesn't try to connect and give me these error messages?

Use function gnus-no-server instead of gnus.  I don't think it's bound
to any key by default.
--
Francis Litterio
franl-remove@world.omit-this.std.com

Re: more graceul failure mode for Gnus when no connected to network?

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Oct 01 2002, Ed wrote:

> When I try gnus-no-server, I don't see any of my private mail groups,
> which is what I need to see.

Does this help?

,----[ news:<v94re4rrsm.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> ]
| (1) <info://gnus/Group+Levels>
| 
| Set your Mail (nnmh) groups to level `gnus-activate-level' (or below)
| and your nntp groups above. When you want to read news, you can use `N
| g' in the *Group* buffer, where N is the level of your nntp
| groups. Maybe you want to change `gnus-.*-level' variables for your
| convenience. 
| 
| If you want the not-connecting (to nntp server) rarely, you may start
| Gnus with a prefix argument in this case, e.g. `M-x 1 gnus RET':
| 
| ,----[ C-h f gnus RET ]
| | gnus is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus'.
| | It is bound to <menu-bar> <tools> <gnus>.
| | (gnus &optional ARG DONT-CONNECT SLAVE)
| | 
| | Read network news.
| | If ARG is non-nil and a positive number, Gnus will use that as the
| | startup level. If ARG is non-nil and not a positive number, Gnus
| | will prompt the user for the name of an NNTP server to use.
| `----
`----

Bye, Reiner.
-- 
       ,,,
      (o o)
---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- PGP key available via WWW   http://rsteib.home.pages.de/