Agent Variables Gnus Unplugged Batching Agents

6.6.7: Example Setup

If you don't want to read this manual, and you have a fairly standard setup, you may be able to use something like the following as your `.gnus.el' file to get started.

;;; Define how Gnus is to fetch news.  We do this over NNTP
;;; from your ISP's server.
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "nntp.your-isp.com"))

;;; Define how Gnus is to read your mail.  We read mail from
;;; your ISP's POP server.
(setenv "MAILHOST" "pop.your-isp.com")
(setq nnmail-spool-file "po:username")

;;; Say how Gnus is to store the mail.  We use nnml groups.
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))

;;; Make Gnus into an offline newsreader.
(gnus-agentize)

That should be it, basically. Put that in your `~/.gnus.el' file, edit to suit your needs, start up PPP (or whatever), and type M-x gnus.

If this is the first time you've run Gnus, you will be subscribed automatically to a few default newsgroups. You'll probably want to subscribe to more groups, and to do that, you have to query the NNTP server for a complete list of groups with the A A command. This usually takes quite a while, but you only have to do it once.

After reading and parsing a while, you'll be presented with a list of groups. Subscribe to the ones you want to read with the u command. l to make all the killed groups disappear after you've subscribe to all the groups you want to read. (A k will bring back all the killed groups.)

You can now read the groups at once, or you can download the articles with the J s command. And then read the rest of this manual to find out which of the other gazillion things you want to customize.

Agent Variables

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