From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40623 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: biff compatible with nnml boxes Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:54:48 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? 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-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176145 1933 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 23018 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 18:55:30 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 29 Nov 2001 18:55:30 -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 169WKv-00078G-00; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:55:05 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:54:50 -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 MAA08278 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:54:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23006 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2001 18:54:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23001 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 18:54:49 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (qmail-remote@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 29 Nov 2001 18:54:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16602 invoked by uid 500); 29 Nov 2001 18:55:10 -0000 Original-To: Vincent Bernat In-Reply-To: (Vincent Bernat's message of "Thu, 29 Nov 2001 19:40:43 +0100") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: bernat@scientist.com, ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40623 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40623 Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En cette matin=E9e ensoleill=E9e du jeudi 29 novembre 2001, vers > 09:25, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) 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