biff compatible with nnml boxes

biff compatible with nnml boxes

[Vincent Bernat]

Hi !

Is there some biff utility (preferably under X11) compatible with nnml
boxes ?
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Re: biff compatible with nnml boxes

[Kai Großjohann]

Vincent Bernat <bernat@scientist.com> writes:

> 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.

How do mails go into nnml in your case?  What's the value of
mail-sources?

kai
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Re: biff compatible with nnml boxes

[Vincent Bernat]

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.

Re: biff compatible with nnml boxes

[Paul Jarc]

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

Re: biff compatible with nnml boxes

[Chmouel Boudjnah]

Vincent Bernat <bernat@scientist.com> writes:

> Is there some biff utility (preferably under X11) compatible with nnml
> boxes ?

not really the answer, but you may can look at that also :

http://inferno.cs.univ-paris8.fr/~drieu/hacks/sources/display-flags.el

;;; display-flags.el --- Display flags for incoming mail

biff compatible with nnimap folders? (Was: biff compatible with nnml boxes)

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>:

> Vincent Bernat <bernat@scientist.com> writes:

>> Is there some biff utility (preferably under X11) compatible with
>> nnml boxes ?

> not really the answer, but you may can look at that also :

> http://inferno.cs.univ-paris8.fr/~drieu/hacks/sources/display-flags.el

> ;;; display-flags.el --- Display flags for incoming mail

Does anyone know of a variant of this, that can poll a couple of IMAP
folders?

Re: biff compatible with nnimap folders? (Was: biff compatible with nnml boxes)

[Colin Marquardt]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>:
>> ;;; display-flags.el --- Display flags for incoming mail
>
> Does anyone know of a variant of this, that can poll a couple of IMAP
> folders?

Check gnu.emacs.sources for imap-mail.el. It didn't work for me
under GNU Emacs (21) though, but the author told me he is working
on a version that is compatible with both Emacs and XEmacs.

Cheers,
  Colin