Re: How to manually download new mail with nnml-get-new-mail set to nil?

[John Sullivan]

Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@mb3.seikyou.ne.jp> writes:

>>>>>> "John" == John Sullivan <usenet@wjsullivan.net> writes:
>
>     John> Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@mb3.seikyou.ne.jp> writes:
>     >> I did not find any command relevant to downloading mail
>     >> manually on demand, so I am at the moment using the above
>     >> variable set to nil on gnus startup and then switch it to t
>     >> when I want to download mail, and then switch it back to nil
>     >> again. Not very elegant!
>
>     John> It sounds like you might want to use group levels. You can
>     John> set your mail groups at one level and your news groups at
>     John> another level. I'm not positive you can set the mail groups
>     John> at a level such that they don't get checked on startup, but
>     John> I think so.
>
>     John> See (info "(gnus)Group Levels").
>
> Hello John,
>
> I tried  to do  this, and  set the Mail  groups all  the 4  while news
> groups are set to 3. Then, with  "C-u 3 g" I expected to only look for
> articles in groups with setting  of 3 or lower. Nevertheless, mail was
> downloaded regardless, sadly.
>

Hm, I would expect the same thing you did. You're sure you didn't miss any when
setting them to 4? 

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