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Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:

> When I'm out of the office for the day I like to do this:
> 
>    (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail 5 1)
> 
> which automatically retrieves email from various pop accounts, which
> are set up like this:

What about something like:

(defun ignore-prompts-scan-mail ()
  (let ((orig-ynp (symbol-function 'y-or-n-p)))
    (unwind-protect
	(progn
	  (fset 'y-or-n-p (lambda (&rest args) t))
	  (gnus-demon-scan-mail))
      (fset 'y-or-n-p orig-ynp))))

And use that as your handler?

-bp
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