Group parameters

2012-08-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
I have Gnus installed on 2 computers ("desktop" and "laptop"). I would like my groups to have exactly the same parameters in both cases. It doesn't have to be completely automatic, but not completely manual, either; that is, I want to avoid doing G c on each group on each computer and entering th

Re: Follow up via news

2011-12-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Ian Zimmerman gmail.com> writes: > Hi. For some odd reasons, I like all my groups served by my IMAP > server, even those that are really newsgroups. I do this by reading the > newsfeed with suck [1] in a cronjob and mailing the articles to myself. > This works pretty well, b

Re: Follow up via news

2011-12-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Philipp Haselwarter gmx.de> writes: > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > (setq group-parameter '(("gnus" (to-list . "info-gnus-english gnu.org")) > ("emacs" (to-list . "help-gnu-emacs gnu.org" > #+end_src > ...or be lazy and set it to the empty string "" for /all/ of your > m

Follow up via news

2011-12-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
hould be followed up to with a news post? -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court. ___ info-gnus-english ma

Re: Ticking entire threads

2011-10-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Harry> Is there such a command? Ian> If nothing else, M-# M-& ? should work. Sorry, this was a case of my fingers knowing more than my head :-) It should be: T # M-& ? -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF

Re: Ticking entire threads

2011-10-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Harry> Is there such a command? If nothing else, M-# M-& ? should work. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave th

Re: unable to see mails in mail.misc

2011-10-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
>> On No Gnus v0.17, GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of ^ I bet the problem is there. (also your other problem with quoting.) -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD0

Re: Gnus Reply With Original Message Quoted

2011-10-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Burton> Sivaram, Bug submitted. Thanks for the attempt at helping. What happens when you type C-c C-y in the reply window? -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to le

Re: Getting rid of the Fcc: field, and other compose problems.

2011-09-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Philip> 2. The "From:" field is populated by a junk email id, Philip> constructed from my username on the local machine and the local Philip> machine's hostname. I have to edit this field also every time so Philip> that it is my proper email address. Customize user-

Showing old threads

2011-08-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
and apologies for a relatively long and ranty post. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court. ___ info-gnus-eng

Re: Mailsource maildir problems

2011-08-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
to be useful, but that would be by chance, not by design, and the results might be different in the future. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the c

Re: Check mail and rss at different intervals?

2011-08-03 Thread Ian Zimmerman
run as often or as rarely as you like, independently of how often you read your mail. [1] http://home.gna.org/feed2imap -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than ei

Dueling duplicates

2011-08-01 Thread Ian Zimmerman
method? I'm interested mainly in the answer for nnimap as that is my primary method. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.

Re: Mail-Followup-To not obeyed

2011-07-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
ut tracing the execution I would never understand why the variable, which was nil when I'd visited it in customize, suddenly acquired a value. 3. The default value itself is strange. If info- is included, why not -announce, or the many other variations on that theme? -- Ian Zimmerman gp

Re: Mail-Followup-To not obeyed

2011-07-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
he list starts with "info-" which matches the latter variable. A workaround should be setting my own rmail-dont-reply-to-names. I haven't tried yet but I'm confident it will work. Can we just agree that this interface needs improvement? ;-) -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C

Re: IMAP , Sent folder and Gnus

2011-07-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
on't really know why you would want to have separate Adam> connections. It sounded on one of your earlier emails like you Adam> wanted to _avoid_ multiple connections?) Yes, but I can imagine it might be useful. The IMAP server could offer different groups/mailboxes on the plain and en

Re: IMAP , Sent folder and Gnus

2011-07-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
ver. Right? Adam> Maybe try and report back? Hmm yes, it does seem to work. I wonder how, though? How does Gnus know that this virtual server is the same as my primary one? Is it keyed by the string address? That would mean you couldn't have a TLS and a plaintext connection to the sam

Mail-Followup-To not obeyed [Was: IMAP , Sent folder and Gnus]

2011-07-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
owup-to is unchanged from default, i.e. 'use Bug or misunderstanding? -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court. __

Re: IMAP , Sent folder and Gnus

2011-07-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
to open another connection - it's somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court. _

IMAP , Sent folder and Gnus

2011-07-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
vides. GUI user agents such as Sylpheed and Claws seem to know how to do this, can Gnus be told to do it? If not, I can hack it by always Bcc'ing myself and having a filter on the server to direct those copies to the folder. But I would rather not have to. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key:

gnus-summary-refer-thread

2006-02-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
When I hit a thread with a long prehistory which is hidden because I have read all the articles in it, I try this command (bound to A T by default) to get some context. Sometimes it works, displaying the read articles from the thread origin to the first unread article. More often, though, it doe

post through mail2news

2006-01-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
I am trying to post news through the mail-to-news gateway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Their protocol is that the mail must already have a Newsgroups: header with the groups I'm posting to. But unfortunately this confuses message-news-p into thinking it should really be posted through news. Does anyone ha

Re: Spam-to-news gateway

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 12/13/05, David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody send legitimate mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It > appears to me to be an unmonitored mail-to-news gateway, which makes > gnu.emacs.gnus the only newsgroup I read that has substantial spam > (ironic, given that the concept originated

[META] Message-Id changes [Was: reconnecting threads]

2005-11-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Ian> People in mailing lists often use broken MUAs or else are just Ian> careless and ignore thread structure when posting. Is there any Ian> way in Gnus to say "the current article is a followup to article Ian> foo" and display it as such from now on? [...] Thanks for your reply (and the othe

mail sources and groups

2005-11-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
My main mail source is a directory with multiple spool folders, into which I split with procmail. I prefer splitting with procmail to Gnus' built-in nnmail-split mechanism for various reasons and don't want to change that. Now what if I want to fetch from the default system mailbox /var/mail/foo

reconnecting threads

2005-11-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
People in mailing lists often use broken MUAs or else are just careless and ignore thread structure when posting. Is there any way in Gnus to say "the current article is a followup to article foo" and display it as such from now on? In the absence of a nicer way, perhaps edit the current article

gmane as secondary select method

2005-08-29 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Since individual.net became unavailable to those of us without an Euro account, I gave up on most newsgroups and started reading mailing lists on related topics. I also switched to nnimap as my mail reading method. Thus I ended up with nnimap as gnus-select-method, and nntp+news.gmane.org as my o

Re: no primary server !

2005-04-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Flatty> Is there a way to make gnus NOT check the primary server and Flatty> even NOT use it at all ? I tried setting the variable Flatty> gnus-select-method to nil but gnus allways wants a nntp server ! Adam> Perhaps you can use nnnil as the primary server? Adam> Something like: Adam> (setq g

Saved mark not saved?

2005-02-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Hello. I find that the "S" mark does not persist from one Gnus session to another. To be precise, the usual situation is this: I start reading a thread I find interesting. I save it, but it is not headed by the original post; that one (and a few followups) has already gone by. I recall them wi