Re: nnimap check for new mail in the background

["Lars Tobias Børsting" <lars.tobias.borsting@ntnu.no>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

>>>> Is it possible to do new mail checking in a separate thread that
>>>> runs in the background, so that it doesn't lock up the interface?
>>>> If not, is it hard to implement such a feature?
>>>
>>> It should be possible.  Implement something run with the idle timer
>>> and iterate over all groups.  The problem is in informing Gnus about
>>> the update -- there is no clean API to do that.  It could be added,
>>> but I don't know how.
>>
>> Would it be possible to do what gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group
>> does when updating each modified group?
>
> (setq imap-log t) and look in the *imap-log* buffer, if you think of
> the IMAP protocol exchange.

Actually, I was thinking of how to notify Gnus of the
changes. gnus-group-get-new-news and friends updates the group buffer,
so maybe some of that code is usable.

-- 
Regards,

Lars Tobias