From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42260 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: display-time-mail-function and GNU Emacs 21 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 01:04:29 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177522 10377 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:18:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 9463 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 00:05:03 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 00:05:03 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16S5Tg-0003jW-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:04:52 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:04:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA20285 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:04:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9454 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2002 00:04:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9449 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 00:04:35 -0000 Original-Received: from ingebrigtsen.no (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 00:04:35 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16S5X2-0006jS-00 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 01:08:20 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1011485300 23681 195.204.10.148 (20 Jan 2002 00:08:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jan 2002 00:08:20 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Various's _Lesbian Favorites: Women Like Us_: "Dar Williams - As Cool As I Am" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: #w\^$^pt.uT5rq]Ea4GwdF*'!DwkoS%Q>8{&<5bbbW%AKXm|#TtYhKSwADX98G^c7D9b+0] #FK$!el"\7t}/CY-Q*Om[{f@RpT,r%!7h7"yh Cancel-Lock: sha1:N34rdf7jFSrZRpsO4AFIOgbV1ZA= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42260 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42260 Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík) writes: > GNU Emacs 21.1 supports display-time-mail-icon and similar stuff which > allows you to display a mail icon in the mode-line if you have new > mail. Do we have any generic way to check, if the user has new mail? No, I don't think so. Gnus can fetch mail via approx. one gazillion methods, and most of these operate on the "we won't know whether there's mail there until we try to fetch it" principle. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen