Re: Caching IMAP articles

[Xavier Maillard]

On 11 oct 2004, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Edi Weitz <spamtrap@agharta.de> writes:
> 
> > I'm reading mail on my laptop from a remote IMAP server. The
> > remote server is at home on an ADSL line which is kind of
> > slow upstream, and sometimes I'm even offline. So, I'm
> > looking for a solution to keep my IMAP server but make mail
> > reading faster if I'm not at home. I've used offlineimap[1]
> > for a while but I didn't really like this setup.
> > 
> > Now I thought that maybe this might be doable with Gnus
> > alone. What I want is the following: Every IMAP message that
> > I've read with Gnus should be stored locally. Whenever I try
> > to read this message again, whether online or offline, Gnus
> > should fetch it from the local storage and don't contact the
> > IMAP server again.
> 
> These are my agent configuration to achieve this:
> 
> '(gnus-agent-consider-all-articles t)
> '(gnus-agent-enable-expiration (quote DISABLE))

Sorry to bother, but why do you disable agent expiration ?

Note that, here I use a slightly different setup and I manage
cache differently.

I play a lot with gnus-cache-* and I think it collides with agent
settings such a way that, when expired from the agent, agent
still download things (read or not).

Why can't I expire articles in the agent without having it trying
to download articles again and again... ?
-- 
Xavier Maillard, zedek@gnu-rox.org