>>>>> "John" == John Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> Gernot Hassenpflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>>> "John" == John Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
John> Gernot Hassenpflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >> I did not find any command relevant to downloading mail >>
>> manually on demand, so I am at the moment using the above >>
>> variable set to nil on gnus startup and then switch it to t >>
>> when I want to download mail, and then switch it back to nil >>
>> again. Not very elegant!
>>
John> It sounds like you might want to use group levels. You can
John> set your mail groups at one level and your news groups at
John> another level. I'm not positive you can set the mail groups
John> at a level such that they don't get checked on startup, but
John> I think so.
>>
John> See (info "(gnus)Group Levels").
>> Hello John,
>>
>> I tried to do this, and set the Mail groups all the 4 while
>> news groups are set to 3. Then, with "C-u 3 g" I expected to
>> only look for articles in groups with setting of 3 or
>> lower. Nevertheless, mail was downloaded regardless, sadly.
>>
John> Hm, I would expect the same thing you did. You're sure you
John> didn't miss any when setting them to 4?
Well, that was a good question, and you were right: on doing "C-u RET"
on my mail groups there were three that had no new messages in them
and were still on level 3. So I changed them to level 4.
However, the problem did not go away, doing a "C-u 3 g" command still
downloaded the messages from the POP server.
Perhaps I need to save the .newsrc file first, or even exit emacs
(which I'm loath to do right now) and then try again. I have all mail
groups set properly at level 4 now.
Very strange. Can anyone confirm that this actually works?
Many thanks,
Gernot
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