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Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> nnml: Reading incoming mail from directory... 
> 
> and never says "done" or "no news" or even erases the message.  Thus,
> one does not immediately know if it is taking Gnus a long time to
> access the file or if there is in fact no mail there.
> 
> This is suboptimal behavior.

How about this quickie patch:

--- nnmail.el.orig	Tue Jul 27 10:15:06 1999
+++ nnmail.el	Tue Jul 27 10:19:16 1999
@@ -1447,7 +1447,9 @@
 	    (incf total new)
 	    (incf i))))
       ;; If we did indeed read any incoming spools, we save all info.
-      (unless (zerop total)
+      (if (zerop total)
+	  (nnheader-message 4 "%s: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done"
+			    method (car source))
 	(nnmail-save-active
 	 (nnmail-get-value "%s-group-alist" method)
 	 (nnmail-get-value "%s-active-file" method))

You can also try replacing the nnheader-message thing with something
that just clears the echo area instead of cluttering it and see if
that which one works out better.