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Re: Populating and updating the active file local cache and keeping gnus
From: |
Ezequiel Birman |
Subject: |
Re: Populating and updating the active file local cache and keeping gnus from querying Astraweb after '1g' |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:04:40 -0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Ezequiel" == Ezequiel Birman <stormwatch@espiga4.com.ar> writes:
> *** note *** I was wondering why I got no replies to my original
> message. It seems I posted on the wrong group gnu.emacs.gnus
> although according to http://www.gnus.org/resources.html "The
> gnu.emacs.gnus newsgroup is the appropriate place to ask questions
> on usage of released versions of Gnus." I thought gnu.emacs.gnus
> was gatewayed to gmane.emacs.gnus.user but my message didn't
> appear on searches. *** end of note ***
> I've configured gnus to only fetch my mail (with nnmail) when I
> press '1g' (and also at startup). Nevertheless, since I've added a
> new nntp binary server (Astraweb) gnus always wastes some precious
> seconds reading the active file from this server as you can see in
> the extract below. Is that unavoidable? This is from *Messages*
> after starting gnus:
> ,---- | Opening nnfolder server on archive...done | Opening nntp
> server on news.gmane.org...done | Opening nntp server on
> news.gwene.org...done | Opening nntp server on Astraweb US
> SSL...done | Opening nnml server on david.espiga4.com.ar...done |
> 165 new newsgroups have arrived | Checking new news... | Reading
> active file from Astraweb US SSL via nntp... | Reading active
> file from david.espiga4.com.ar via nnml... | Reading incoming
> mail from file... `----
> On a related note, and proably more important too, I can only
> browse through Astraweb's groups if I enter the *Server* buffer
> whereas I'd rather like to be able to have them in the Killed (or
> Zombie if new) Groups list so I can see them when I press 'A
> k'. Is this possible? I've tried recreating the active file with
> gnus-cache-generate-active, also gnus-group-find-new-groups (with
> one and two C-u prefixes) but I keep seeing only the groups from
> old servers (gmane, gwene, and my primary server individual.net)
> A list of pertinent variables:
> gnus-activate-level 5 (changed from the default which is 6)
> gnus-group-default-list-level 5 gnus-group-use-permanent-levels
> nil gnus-level-default-subscribed 3
> gnus-level-default-unsubscribed 6 gnus-level-killed 9
> gnus-level-subscribed 5 gnus-level-unsubscribed 7
> gnus-level-zombie 8 gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method
> gnus-subscribe-zombies
> Gnus v5.13
> GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d
> scroll bars) of 2013-01-11 on david.espiga4.com.ar
> -- Ezequiel Birman
Anyone, at least a hint, please?
--
Ezequiel Birman