From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42279 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel =?iso-8859-2?q?Jan=EDk?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: display-time-mail-function and GNU Emacs 21 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:42:47 +0100 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 1035177541 10485 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:19:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 1869 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 11:07:58 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 11:07:58 -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 16SFoF-0000K9-00; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 05:06:48 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 20 Jan 2002 05:06:40 -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 FAA22370 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 05:06:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 1851 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2002 11:06:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1845 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 11:06:22 -0000 Original-Received: from p0108.as-l043.contactel.cz (HELO SnowWhite.SuSE.cz) (194.108.242.108) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 11:06:22 -0000 Original-Received: by SnowWhite.SuSE.cz (PJ, from userid 500) id 7EBEF441BF; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:08:29 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Face: $"d&^B_IKlTHX!y2d,3;grhwjOBqOli]LV`6d]58%5'x/kBd7.MO&n3bJ@Zkf&RfBu|^qL+ ?/Re{MpTqanXS2'~Qp'J2p^M7uM:zp[1Xq#{|C!*'&NvCC[9!|=>#qHqIhroq_S"MH8nSH+d^9*BF: iHiAs(t(~b#1.{w.d[=Z In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 20 Jan 2002 01:04:29 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i386-suse-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 19 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42279 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42279 From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 01:04:29 +0100 Hi Lars, > > 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. OK, thank you (I thought it is so). I have extended display-time-mail-.* for directory checking and will commit it soon do Emacs' CVS (see emacs-devel@ for the first version). -- Pavel Janík Would you like to code up this, test it and send it to me? -- Linus "lazy is my middle name" Torvalds in linux-kernel