From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75240 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: retrieving count of new nnimap group messages on server Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:26:55 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87oc8jxwgw.fsf@dod.no> References: <87pqsz4vvf.fsf@geneva.hpsy.me> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292664515 23336 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2010 09:28:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:28:35 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23595@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Dec 18 10:28:28 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 1PTt5X-0000XM-PB for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:28:27 +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 1PTt4O-0003DV-6l; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 03:27:16 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PTt4L-0003DH-Bz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 03:27:13 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTt4J-0001PK-8k for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 03:27:12 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTt4H-0005bL-41 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:27:09 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTt4F-0008Sv-W7 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:27:07 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.226.192.getinternet.no ([84.208.226.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:27:07 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.226.192.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:27:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.226.192.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bnoP8BvjP/V1Ke1pIFr1Ee/9Q/c= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75240 Archived-At: >>>>> 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.