>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> However, Gnus seems to perform badly (IMHO) when accessing Brian> remote mail: Brian> - on startup, it tries to check for mail on every folder. This Brian> is slow and time consuming (I only have a shared 28.8kbps Brian> Internet connection...). Especially annoying if I only want to Brian> check mail on my local server. one way you might be able to accomplish this is to use 'levels'. you can set a mail (or news) group at a certain level, and when you check for new mail gnus will only fetch for groups at or below that level. the default fetch level is 3 (IIRC), so if you set groups at level 4 they would only be fetched if you explicitly asked for them. I have not tried this, so YMMV. -- joe
