Re: IMAP and IDLE...

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:20:22 +0100 Olivier Sirven <the.slaa@gmail.com> wrote: 

OS> On 2011-03-16 14:53:46, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>> I'd rather just see a modeline indicator that I have new mail in INBOX.
>> I really don't want Emacs to freeze randomly and "instant" splitting
>> doesn't have much value for me (if it did, I'd be using Procmail or
>> Sieve on the server side).

OS> Sometimes you just don't have the possibility to do server side
OS> splitting and all you can do is to do it on the client side

My point was that instant splitting is not so useful to me with my
current work pattern.  That may change.

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:58:04 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> I assume that for people who use client-side splitting, the question "is
LMI> there new mail in INBOX?" can be emulated with 99.7% accuracy by this
LMI> function:

LMI> (defun nnimap-new-mail-p ()
LMI>   t)

I'd need a count and to be able to peek at the sender and subject of the
INBOX, plus to be able to dump the INBOX messages' body text (without
attachments) in a temp buffer.  So I can say "oh there's mail...  let me
peek...  no, it's not worth splitting it yet."  This is how I work now.

I'm not suggesting anyone else needs this, but IMHO it's generally useful.

Ted