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Re: How to not check for new messages at start-up?


From: Teemu Likonen
Subject: Re: How to not check for new messages at start-up?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:16:16 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

* 2011-10-18T13:53:57+08:00 * Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 18 2011, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>> When Gnus is started it automatically checks for new messages. Can I
>> prevent that? Sometimes I don't want this automatic "g" command but
>> just a quick M-g on a specific group.
>
> If you use `gnus-unplugged' instead of `gnus', that should do what you
> want. You might have to be using the agent, and it doesn't always
> behave exactly as you'd expect, but that's the basic idea…

Thanks. Indeed, gnus-unplugged seems to do what I want: it does not
fetch new mail from mail-sources nor does it check new news.



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