hput via "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader (in English)" wrote:
> So Can any one provide a step thru to getting started accumulating > messages with the agent? > > I used a `true' predicate back when I was working on it, but don't > recall much other detail. If you still want to use the agent (after considering Eric's suggestion), it should be to finely control the kind of messages you want downloaded. The 'Agent Basics' section of the manual covers most of what you need. Simply agentize the server (J a) and any messages you read will automatically be saved (unless gnus-agent-eagerly-store-articles is changed) I also have gnus-agent-enable-expiration set to 'DISABLE to keep all articles permanently - if you want to expire agent articles selectively, don't do that, and mark the ones you want to keep (see 'Agent Expiry') A 'download policy' is only needed if you want to download articles blindly based on some rule. To read them offline, unplug Gnus (J j) - you can include the download mark in gnus-summary-line-format to know whether the article you are about to read is availabe offline. --
