Pratik wrote: > [Posting to n.p.m.mail-news and setting followups] > > So before I file a bug, does anyone know why newsgroup postings don't > get downloaded automatically if you have set the option to check for new > messages? Why do I have to press Ctrl-T to get the headers (if I am > already in the same newsgroup)? >
Well, at a guess, it's by design. If you look in Edit->Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings for a mail server there are 2 check boxes, "Check for new messages every[nn] minutes", and "Automatically download any new messages", but for News servers there is only 1, "Check for new messages every [nn] minutes". So it would appear that it is not intended to automatically d/l new headers. I would suggest that one possible reason is that there is also an option for News servers, "Ask me before downloading more than [nnnn] messages". If it were designed to automatically d/l new headers you could get a confirmation dialogue popping up out of the blue, which would sure as hell annoy me. Regards, Parish > Pratik. > > -- Software is like sex, it's better when it's free - Linus Torvalds Anti-spam e-mail address, change _AT_, sorry for the inconvenience
