nljlistb...@gmail.com (N. Jackson) writes: > I use the Agent for reading news offline (because I don't have an > Internet connection for many hours of the day). I only read a > handful of news groups offline, but the Agent downloads the > headers for every single group on my agentised servers. This takes > about fifteen or twenty minutes every time I do `J s' because I > have very many groups on those servers (most of which I only read > about once a year). Downloading the actual news for the groups I'm > interested in reading offline only takes about a minute, so it > seems insane to download all these headers that I don't want. > > How can I tell the Agent to not download even the headers for a > group? > > Currently I have one Agent category for each of my agentised > groups. That is the "default" category and it is set to 0 (by the > Agent when it first set itself up). For the groups I want to read > offline I have group parameters that tell the Agent to retrieve > all messages (I have a `true' predicate). > > It seems I need an Agent predicate that is more strongly negative > than `false', something like `not-even-headers'. > > I suppose I might be asking the wrong question, since the Agent > predicates are to tell the Agent which articles to get, it must > have already retrieved the unwanted headers before it even starts > applying the predicates. So I need a way of telling the Agent at a > higher level not to even get the headers. But I don't see anything > useful in the documentation. > > What am I missing?
I don't think it's possible to do this presently -- looking at `gnus-agent-fetch-group-1', the headers are indeed fetched before the predicate is examined. In principle, however, there's no reason why this wouldn't be possible: we could retrieve the predicate higher up in the function, and ignore the group altogether (unless some articles had been marked specifically for downloading). I suggest using `gnus-bug' to report this and describe the situation; hopefully someone will get to it! Eric _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
