continue automatically despite y/n prompt?

continue automatically despite y/n prompt?

[Bill White]

When I'm out of the office for the day I like to do this:

   (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail 5 1)

which automatically retrieves email from various pop accounts, which
are set up like this:

(setq mail-sources 
      '((pop :server "someserver0"
	     :user "me0"
             :dontexpunge nil)
	(pop :server "someserver1"
	     :user "me1"
             :dontexpunge nil)
	(pop :server "someserver2"
	     :user "me2"
             :dontexpunge nil)
))


The problem is that some pop servers are unavailable at times.  

When a server is not available and a download is attempted, an error
is displayed in the minibuffer with a y/n prompt - something like
"Server is unavailable. Do you want to continue (y/n)?"  If I'm not
around to respond, gnus will wait for the keypress until I come in the
next morning and type `y'.  Meanwhile, while gnus is waiting, no mail
is downloaded.

How can I make gnus continue regardless of such errors?

Thanks -

bw
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Re: continue automatically despite y/n prompt?

[William M. Perry]

Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:

> When I'm out of the office for the day I like to do this:
> 
>    (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail 5 1)
> 
> which automatically retrieves email from various pop accounts, which
> are set up like this:

What about something like:

(defun ignore-prompts-scan-mail ()
  (let ((orig-ynp (symbol-function 'y-or-n-p)))
    (unwind-protect
	(progn
	  (fset 'y-or-n-p (lambda (&rest args) t))
	  (gnus-demon-scan-mail))
      (fset 'y-or-n-p orig-ynp))))

And use that as your handler?

-bp
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Re: continue automatically despite y/n prompt?

[Bill White]

On Thu Jun 21 2001 at 13:35, wmperry@gnu.org (William M. Perry) said:

    > Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
    > 
>> When I'm out of the office for the day I like to do this:
>> 
>>    (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail 5 1)
>> 
>> which automatically retrieves email from various pop accounts,
>> which are set up like this:
    > 
    > What about something like:
    > 
    > (defun ignore-prompts-scan-mail ()
    >   (let ((orig-ynp (symbol-function 'y-or-n-p)))
    >     (unwind-protect
    > 	(progn
    > 	  (fset 'y-or-n-p (lambda (&rest args) t))
    > 	  (gnus-demon-scan-mail))
    >       (fset 'y-or-n-p orig-ynp))))
    > 
    > And use that as your handler?

Well that looks cool - I'll give it a try over the weekend.

Thanks!

bw
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