Re: a couple of newbie questions with gnus

[Martin Jørgensen]

Tassilo Horn <heimdall@uni-koblenz.de> writes:

> unoder.spam@spam.jay.net (Martin Jørgensen) writes:
-snip-
>> I think the default is that it only shows new messages... But it
>> doesn't automatically show the old messages in that thread.
>
> Sorry, I got you wrong. See
>
> ,----[ C-h v gnus-fetch-old-headers RET ]
> | gnus-fetch-old-headers is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'.
> | Its value is some
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | *Non-nil means that Gnus will try to build threads by grabbing old
> | headers.  If an unread article in the group refers to an older,
> | already read (or just marked as read) article, the old article will
> | not normally be displayed in the Summary buffer.  If this variable is
> | t, Gnus will attempt to grab the headers to the old articles, and
> | thereby build complete threads.  If it has the value `some', all old
> | headers will be fetched but only enough headers to connect otherwise
> | loose threads will be displayed.  This variable can also be a number.
> | In that case, no more than that number of old headers will be fetched.
> | If it has the value `invisible', all old headers will be fetched, but
> | none will be displayed.
> | 
> | The server has to support NOV for any of this to work.
> | 
> | This feature can seriously impact performance it ignores all
> | locally cached header entries.
> | 
> | You can customize this variable.
> `----
>
> So set it to t, if you want complete threads, or set it to 'some (that's
> what I do), to get as many old articles as are needed to build a
> complete sumthread.
>
> If it's set to nil (the default) no old headers will be fetched.
>
> So put either
>
>   (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers t) ;; complete threads
>
> or
>
>   (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some) ;; complete subthreads
>
> into your ~/.gnus.el.

Thanks a lot - that was pretty clear and easy to understand.

I've now set it to "complete subthreads" and tried it a bit. It shows a
couple of old postings now, but not many... I might experiment a bit
with this, but it looks better now...


Best regards
Martin Jørgensen

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