From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: biff compatible with nnml boxes
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:54:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oflljtkh.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3g06xzahg.fsf@neo.loria> (Vincent Bernat's message of "Thu, 29 Nov 2001 19:40:43 +0100")
Vincent Bernat <bernat@scientist.com> wrote:
> OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du jeudi 29 novembre 2001, vers
> 09:25, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) disait:
>>> Is there some biff utility (preferably under X11) compatible with nnml
>>> boxes ?
>>
>> This sentence has no real meaning. Gnus fetches mail from the places
>> specified in mail-sources and puts it in the nnml groups itself. If
>> you have another program which directly frobs the nnml groups, then
>> you are living very dangerously, and I think finding biff should be
>> the last thing on your agenda -- much later than running away from
>> that danger very quickly.
>
> For me, biff is an utility which alerts you when you receive a new
> mail. Like the "biff" command.
Right, but new mail doesn't show up in your nnml groups. It shows up
in your mail-sources, and then you type [g] in the *Group* buffer to
pull it from mail-sources into your nnml groups. By the time it gets
to nnml, it's no longer new. You need a biff that looks at your
mail-sources, not your nnml groups.
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-29 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-28 17:54 Vincent Bernat
2001-11-29 8:25 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-29 18:40 ` Vincent Bernat
2001-11-29 18:54 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2001-12-03 16:38 ` Chmouel Boudjnah
2001-12-03 17:17 ` biff compatible with nnimap folders? (Was: biff compatible with nnml boxes) Steinar Bang
2001-12-03 17:32 ` Colin Marquardt
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