Adding a group to a Gnus agent

Adding a group to a Gnus agent

[Philip Kaludercic]

Hi,

I'm playing around with nnimap again, and wanted to configure the Gnus
Agent to download all messages (or at least all somewhat recent
messages) to be accessible offline.  The issue is that I must be missing
something in the manual, and cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong.

My understanding is that after adding a group using "J a" (I tried both
default and adding it to a custom group), I could use "J s" or "J u" to
fetch messages, right? But in my case, all I get is a

      gnus-agent-fetch-session: No servers are covered by the Gnus agent

message.  Is there something obvious I am missing?

-- 
	Philip Kaludercic

Re: Adding a group to a Gnus agent

[Eric S Fraga]

On Wednesday,  1 Dec 2021 at 10:08, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> My understanding is that after adding a group using "J a" (I tried both
> default and adding it to a custom group), I could use "J s" or "J u" to
> fetch messages, right? But in my case, all I get is a
>
>       gnus-agent-fetch-session: No servers are covered by the Gnus agent

You also need to add the actual servers.  Go to the server view (^ from
the Group buffer) and use "J a" to add specific servers you want under
agent control.

-- 
Eric S Fraga with org 9.5 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.1

Re: Adding a group to a Gnus agent

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Wednesday,  1 Dec 2021 at 10:08, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>> My understanding is that after adding a group using "J a" (I tried both
>> default and adding it to a custom group), I could use "J s" or "J u" to
>> fetch messages, right? But in my case, all I get is a
>>
>>       gnus-agent-fetch-session: No servers are covered by the Gnus agent
>
> You also need to add the actual servers.  Go to the server view (^ from
> the Group buffer) and use "J a" to add specific servers you want under
> agent control.

Great, that worked. Thank you!

-- 
	Philip Kaludercic