Hooking on to new messages

[Urban Engberg <ue@cci.dk>]

I am trying to make Gnus notify me whenever there is new mail, but
only when it's personal.  I don't want to use procmail, so I use Gnus'
mail-splitting (nnmail-split-fancy) and add a mail scanning daemon
like this:

  (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail 1 nil)

Now, to detect when there is some interesting mail, I have tried

  (add-hook 'nnml-prepare-save-mail-hook 'ue-gnus-article-notify)

(or alternatively nnmail-prepare-save-mail-hook).
ue-gnus-article-notify should thus get called on each new message, and
may for instance look for the new X-ref header and produce some sort
of notification when I want it to.

The strange thing is that this seems to work most of the time -- when
I am actively working inside Emacs, that is.  When I leave Emacs for
some time, I can see that gnus-demon-scan-mail gets called as it
should every minute, but ue-gnus-article-notify is never being
called.  I've tried to debug, but without success (as I said, when I
am working in Emacs, it seems to work).  Am I using the right hook?
Some better way to do this?

  Urban

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