From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28642 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai=?iso-8859-1?q?_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New mail indicator Date: 07 Jan 2000 11:17:29 +0100 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=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165454 30902 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:57:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:57:34 +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 E2502D051F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 05:20:05 -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 EAB19299; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 04:19:51 -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 04:19:53 -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 EAA04604 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 04:19:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7981AD051F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 05:18:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id LAA19444; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:17:30 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id LAA10801; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:17:30 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-6) id LAA26355; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:17:29 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: Roman Belenov In-Reply-To: Roman Belenov's message of "07 Jan 2000 13:10:00 +0300" Original-Lines: 26 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:28642 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28642 Roman Belenov writes: > So it's not related to my question (I don't have /var/... at all under > Windows NT). Is there a way to indicate that there are unread messages > in Gnus ? 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. 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? 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. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)