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: >>>> >>>>> 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. > > Typo : sacrilege I know, but I mean emacs ;) ?
> I might try your way just as an academic exercise at one stage. > > You still need to manually run offlineimap in emacs though No: (add-hook 'gnus-before-startup-hook 'offlineimap) > whereas mine > just happens and I get informed as and when offlineimap has done its job > so I can see the mail instantly! Instantly every time your cron job have run. My mail notification system watch directly the gmail server, it doesn't depend of what offlineimap fetch. > I use Mail Notification 5.4 to then > preview whether to bother firing up gnus and fetching (instantly) from > my local dovecot. My offlineimap config handles multiple accounts too. -- 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
