Richard Riley <[email protected]> writes: > Thierry Volpiatto <[email protected]> writes: > >> Richard Riley <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Yuri D'Elia <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:19:42 +0100, Richard Riley wrote: >>>>>> As soon as you use splitting or virtual groups, an external process >>>>>> becomes useless (for instance, I have several rules that split messages >>>>>> into groups that I ignore). >>>>> >>>>> Not if you dont use the demon and then split when you hit g. In other >>>>> words you only fetch your mail when gnubiff or something similar tells >>>>> you that you have new mail. >>>> >>>> Concrete example: if splitting includes spam rules, gnubiff will notify >>>> you of spam too. >>>> >>> >>> Yes that is most certainly true. Since I use googlemail I'm kind of >>> spoiled as their spam filtering server side is pretty good these days >>> (that and my spam-split set up doesnt work anymore on NoGnus) and so I >>> turned off client side "spam-split"ting. >> >> If you use gmail, you can have easy mail notification with: >> >> https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom >> >> It give you an xml buffer you have to parse. >> >> A library exists on emacswiki for this, don't remember the name, it >> didn't work for me so i wrote small code for this for my personal use, i >> can send it if interested. >> Of course if one use gnus-demon, it's non--sense to use this. > > Just as an FYI to the OP if new to Gnus, I have found the best set up > for me with Gnus is dovecot locally fed by offlineimap which is run as a > cron job every half hour or so. I use here offlineimap.el that is started each time i start gnus. http://julien.danjou.info/offlineimap-el.html I think that coupled with a gmail notification is better than a cronjob. > nnir search works really well and of > course there are then no performance or bandwidth issues with Gnus > talking imap with remote gmail servers. Plus you have a local copy of > your mail. Here is one "how to" for the set up: > > http://sachachua.com/blog/2008/05/geek-how-to-use-offlineimap-and-the-dovecot-mail-server-to-read-your-gmail-in-emacs-efficiently/ > http://tinyurl.com/26cwmok
I have also started to use dovecot/offlineimap, however it's was not so easy to configure dovecot, especially the mail_location, what is described in sacha blog is deprecated. So here i use for gmail: ,----[ dovecot config ] | mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/Maildir/INBOX `---- Hope that's help -- A+ Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997 _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
