From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: retrieving count of new nnimap group messages on server
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:26:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oc8jxwgw.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqsz4vvf.fsf@geneva.hpsy.me>
>>>>> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-18 9:26 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 [this message]
2010-12-19 21:20 ` Joseph Gay
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