Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)
>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Dane <joe@hotu.com> writes:
Joseph> one way you might be able to accomplish this is to use
Joseph> 'levels'. you can set a mail (or news) group at a certain
Joseph> level, and when you check for new mail gnus will only
Joseph> fetch for groups at or below that level. the default
Joseph> fetch level is 3 (IIRC), so if you set groups at level 4
Joseph> they would only be fetched if you explicitly asked for
Joseph> them.
Joseph> I have not tried this, so YMMV.
Hmmm... Interesting thought.
I have not tried it, but my guess is that Gnus will still try to
connect to all servers on initial startup though.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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