gnus: Agent Caveats
6.9.14 Agent Caveats
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The Gnus Agent doesn’t seem to work like most other offline newsreaders.
Here are some common questions that some imaginary people may ask:
“If I read an article while plugged, do they get entered into the Agent?”
*No*. If you want this behavior, add
‘gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article’ to ‘gnus-select-article-hook’.
“If I read an article while plugged, and the article already exists in”
the Agent, will it get downloaded once more?
*No*, unless ‘gnus-agent-cache’ is ‘nil’.
In short, when Gnus is unplugged, it only looks into the locally
stored articles; when it’s plugged, it talks to your ISP and may also
use the locally stored articles.
Info Catalog
gnus: Batching Agents
gnus: Gnus Unplugged