Re: Gnus+procmail and display-time

[Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>]

>>>>> "Nelson" == Nelson Jose dos Santos Ferreira <Nelson.Ferreira@inesc.pt> writes:

Nelson> I use procmail to split my mail, and then read it with
Nelson> gnus. It's a lot faster than nnmail-split !!!  The down side
Nelson> is I no longer have the mail indicator on the modeline :(

Nelson> I'm thinking of moving the entire procmail files to a
Nelson> directory where gnus will then read the mail. display-time
Nelson> will check the log there.

I file all my "direct to me, not from a mailing list" email into
a single folder (my "inbox", because it was rooted in my MH usage).
For me, this is:

	/home/merlyn/.incoming/inbox.spool

I then included the following two lines in my .login:

        setenv MAIL /home/merlyn/.incoming/inbox.spool
        set mail=$MAIL

Works like a charm.  GNU Emacs picks it up, and flags new Mail.  The
shells announce "you've got mail".  Heck, even the "from(1)" command
works. :-)

Other filed mail doesn't trigger, but that's stuff I don't need
immediate notify about anyway.

If you can live with that, there's an off-the-shelf solution.

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