Re: Gnus: caching message headers?

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Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org> writes:

>>> Is there a way to tell gnus-agent to create only a cache of headers, 
>>> that is, to not store a local copy of the emails that have been read?
>>
>> I don't think it does. From info '(gnus)Agent Caveats':
>>
>>> “If I read an article while plugged, do they get entered into the 
>>> Agent?”
>>>
>>> *No*.  If you want this behavior, add 
>>> ‘gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article’ to ‘gnus-select-article-hook’.
>>
>
> That's what the doc says, and I'm not sure what it means exactly, but with 
> the current version of Gnus, and with `gnus-select-article-hook' set to 
> nil (the default), a local copy of the emails is indeed entered into the 
> agent cache, by `gnus-agent-store-article'.  The backtrace is

You should reset the default agent category predicate from 'short' to
'false' if you havent. See '(gnus)Category Syntax' for details.

Used to work properly for me when I had it set up like that. I'm using 26.3.

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