From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to set up Emacs as a mail client (with mail saved/filed on an IMAP server) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:06:13 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8761p1gdtm.fsf@moondust.localdomain> References: <87ha8t24v9.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <87d2jfy0qb.fsf@moondust.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391130612 27211 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2014 01:10:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 01:10:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 31 02:10:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W92ce-0004pf-9J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:10:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W92cd-0005BZ-Pm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:10:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: nqJ/Dfd3FiiA8bL0+2/4Hg.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:yD7V7Sv7oojDpG0CQGx+oXLQhk8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203548 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95817 Archived-At: Following up, for completeness, on my own post: > The only real inconvenience remaining is that when I configure > variables for Gnus the values are global, and I don't see yet how to > restrict their scope to a particular server or group or retrieval > method. I have now found the solution to this as well. :) Not that it was hidden; it was lying about in plain sight, I just failed to recognise it at first. It is "Group Parameters", of course. ("Of course" now that I know what it's called.) One uses it to override global Gnus settings (including display settings) for a specific Group or Groups (specified by name using a regular expression). For more information, from within Gnus: C-c TAB i Group Parameters RET. So I now have the following in my .gnus.el and it does exactly what I want: (setq gnus-parameters ; Settings for all IMAP groups (could be more discerning, but this ; works just fine for now): '(("nnimap*" (gnus-large-newsgroup 6000) ; Suppress prompts for now. (display . all) ; Show previously-read mail too. (gnus-show-threads nil) ; Don't organise by threads. ; Sort chronologically with newest at top: (gnus-article-sort-functions '((not gnus-article-sort-by-date))) ) ) ) (The (gnus-large-newsgroup 6000) is only in there temporarily, to prevent Gnus from deciding that it better ask me how many headers to download, there being rather a lot. Normally the Gnus global default threshold of 200 would be more than ample -- I rarely keep more that 50 mails in my inbox at one time, but, because I haven't had an easily usable mail set up for a few months, my main inbox is rather full of stuff that needs filing and I was getting annoyed by the prompts every time I opened it!) There are also Topic Parameters, but I didn't get in to those yet!