Variable: gnus-agent

gnus-agent is a customizable variable defined in gnus.el.gz.

Value

t

Documentation

Whether we want to use the Gnus agent or not.

You may customize gnus-agent to disable its use. However, some back ends have started to use the agent as a client-side cache. Disabling the agent may result in noticeable loss of performance.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 22.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/gnus.el.gz
;; Fixme: Doc reference to agent.
(defcustom gnus-agent t
  "Whether we want to use the Gnus agent or not.

You may customize `gnus-agent' to disable its use.  However, some
back ends have started to use the agent as a client-side cache.
Disabling the agent may result in noticeable loss of performance."
  :version "22.1"
  :group 'gnus-agent
  :type 'boolean)