Tassilo Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Jørgensen) writes: -snip- >> I think the default is that it only shows new messages... But it >> doesn't automatically show the old messages in that thread. > > Sorry, I got you wrong. See > > ,----[ C-h v gnus-fetch-old-headers RET ] > | gnus-fetch-old-headers is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'. > | Its value is some > | > | Documentation: > | *Non-nil means that Gnus will try to build threads by grabbing old > | headers. If an unread article in the group refers to an older, > | already read (or just marked as read) article, the old article will > | not normally be displayed in the Summary buffer. If this variable is > | t, Gnus will attempt to grab the headers to the old articles, and > | thereby build complete threads. If it has the value `some', all old > | headers will be fetched but only enough headers to connect otherwise > | loose threads will be displayed. This variable can also be a number. > | In that case, no more than that number of old headers will be fetched. > | If it has the value `invisible', all old headers will be fetched, but > | none will be displayed. > | > | The server has to support NOV for any of this to work. > | > | This feature can seriously impact performance it ignores all > | locally cached header entries. > | > | You can customize this variable. > `---- > > So set it to t, if you want complete threads, or set it to 'some (that's > what I do), to get as many old articles as are needed to build a > complete sumthread. > > If it's set to nil (the default) no old headers will be fetched. > > So put either > > (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers t) ;; complete threads > > or > > (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some) ;; complete subthreads > > into your ~/.gnus.el.
Thanks a lot - that was pretty clear and easy to understand. I've now set it to "complete subthreads" and tried it a bit. It shows a couple of old postings now, but not many... I might experiment a bit with this, but it looks better now... Best regards Martin Jørgensen -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home of Martin Jørgensen - http://www.martinjoergensen.dk _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
