Re: the laborious bootstrap process

[Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl>]

On 13 Mar 2000 20:46:49 +0100 Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> >>>>> Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com>:
> 
> > Darcy Brockbank <darcy@hasc.com> writes:
> 
> >> (2) I'd like to have it poll my mail server for new mail every
> >> five minutes or so, rather than having me do this manually. I
> >> can't seem to find anything to set this behaviour.
> 
> > My choice, slurped out of gnu.emacs.gnus quite some time back, and
> > then modified to my personal taste:
> 
> A simpler version is simply:
> 
> ;; daemonical mail and news fetch
> (gnus-demon-add-rescan)
> 
> This one fetches mail if Gnus is left alone for one hour.  I guess the 
> simplest setup to fetch mail every 5 minutes, would be something like
> this:
> 	(gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail 5 t)

I use

(gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail 5 nil)
(gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-news 5 nil)
(gnus-demon-init)

which will scan for new mail every 5 minutes, regardless of other emacs
activity.

Jaap-Henk

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