From: Joseph Gay <gilleylen@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: retrieving count of new nnimap group messages on server
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:20:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aak11mu7.fsf@geneva.hpsy.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oc8jxwgw.fsf@dod.no>
Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>>>>> Joseph Gay <gilleylen@gmail.com>:
>
>> I've switched from Mew to Gnus for reading e-mail over IMAP. One
>> feature I'd like to duplicate is mew-biff-function, which returns the
>> number of new messages on the server. Note that this doesn't download
>> the messages. Is there a way to achieve this with Gnus?
>
> If you use the gnus demon it can poll the server for new messages, and
> the nnimap groups you want to watch will show the number of unread
> messages that have arrived, as well as displaying the group name in bold
> face.
Thanks Steinar. I was wary of using the demon since I have everything in
one process and some things over the network, but I will give it a try
as it has run swiftly thus far.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-19 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-18 3:12 Joseph Gay
2010-12-18 9:26 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-19 21:20 ` Joseph Gay [this message]
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