Variable: gnus-auto-subscribed-categories

gnus-auto-subscribed-categories is a customizable variable defined in gnus-start.el.gz.

Value

(mail post-mail)

Documentation

New groups from methods of these categories will be subscribed automatically.

Note that this variable only deals with new groups. It has no effect whatsoever on old groups. The default is to automatically subscribe all groups from mail-like backends.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 24.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el.gz
(defcustom gnus-auto-subscribed-categories '(mail post-mail)
  "New groups from methods of these categories will be subscribed automatically.
Note that this variable only deals with new groups.  It has no
effect whatsoever on old groups.  The default is to automatically
subscribe all groups from mail-like backends."
  :version "24.1"
  :group 'gnus-group-new
  :type '(repeat symbol))