From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28644 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roman Belenov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New mail indicator Date: 07 Jan 2000 13:34:30 +0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86ogaye150.fsf@mediawars.ne.jp> 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 1035165455 30911 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:57:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:57:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF4AD051F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 05:40:03 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAB19349; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 04:36:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 07 Jan 2000 04:36:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA04813 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 04:36:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from host.nstl.nnov.ru (host.nstl.nnov.ru [195.98.59.131]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE65D051F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 05:34:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from bsd.nstl.nnov.ru (bsd.nstl.nnov.ru [195.98.49.2]) by host.nstl.nnov.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA54967; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:34:37 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from roman@nstl.nnov.ru) Original-Received: from nstl.nstl.nnov.ru (nstl.nstl.nnov.ru [195.98.58.2]) by bsd.nstl.nnov.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA44073; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:38:22 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from roman@nstl.nnov.ru) Original-Received: from LIGHTHOUSE (nc034.nstl.nnov.ru [195.98.58.34] (may be forged)) by nstl.nstl.nnov.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17888; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:09:42 +0300 (MSK/MSD) Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai=?iso-8859-1?q?_Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "07 Jan 2000 11:17:29 +0100" Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28644 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28644 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) 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. --=20 With regards, Roman.