From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75292 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joseph Gay Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: retrieving count of new nnimap group messages on server Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:20:32 -0600 Message-ID: <87aak11mu7.fsf@geneva.hpsy.me> References: <87pqsz4vvf.fsf@geneva.hpsy.me> <87oc8jxwgw.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292794119 25720 80.91.229.12 (19 Dec 2010 21:28:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:28:39 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23644@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Dec 19 22:28:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUQnx-0000f3-7B for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:28:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PUQn4-00007d-H5; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:27:38 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PUQn2-00007O-MH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:27:36 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PUQms-00026V-5E for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:27:36 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PUQmq-0001zJ-05 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:27:24 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUQmo-000080-LS for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:27:22 +0100 Original-Received: from adsl-89-29-117.mgm.bellsouth.net ([98.89.29.117]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:27:22 +0100 Original-Received: from gilleylen by adsl-89-29-117.mgm.bellsouth.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:27:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-89-29-117.mgm.bellsouth.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:reUbdC5vN7JGL9SQ0sPpZTmGfLY= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75292 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> Joseph Gay : > >> 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.