Re: New mail indicator

[Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Well, I think there is no predefined functionality in Gnus for doing
> this, but try M-: (gnus-group-unread "nnml:mail.misc") RET -- does
> that return a useful value?  (You might wish to substitute another
> group name rather than nnml:mail.misc.)  And then, there is M-:
> (gnus-topic-unread "Gnus") RET which returns the number of unread
> messages in that topic.

Thanks, these functions should suffice.

> But I think it does not make sense to show the number of unread
> messages in Gnus, except maybe if you're using the demon.  Are you a
> demonic Gnus user?

Yes. Actually, I've just started using Gnus as my mail reader; but my
previous reader checked POP3 mailbox (getting new mail) once a while
so I enabled similar functionality in Gnus.

> Normally, I think it would make more sense to have a program which
> contacts the POP server every now and then to determine the number of
> messages waiting there.
> Or maybe the IMAP server.  Maybe the nice
> package epop3mail.el from Franklin Lee provides that functionality for
> POP?  Dunno about IMAP.

Well, maybe just polling POP3 server will be more useful - I'll try it too.

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 							With regards, Roman.