Richard Riley <[email protected]> writes: > Thierry Volpiatto <[email protected]> writes: > >> 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. > > I dont think it is since the benefit of my way is I dont need gnus > running to see email notifications. Me too ;-) See above
Gnus is stopped. 1) I call async https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom every five minutes. 2) When i am notified of a new email, i run Gnus who run offlineimap. > Emacs/Gnus just dont do "async" well > and for me its not its job to run offlineimap which isnt necessarily the > quickest anyway. Still horses for courses and an interesting mix of > approaches ;) >> >>> 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 > > I use multiple virtual users to handle my different gmail accounts. I > can share the set up if anyone is interested. -- 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
