Re: Gnus and NoCeM.

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com>]

Ken McGlothlen writes:

>     1.	Is there a way to run NoCeM asynchronously?

(gnus-demon-add-nocem)

Since you have a DSL link, I asume you have a full-time connection, so 
the nocem can take place all day long (as long as emacs is up).

>     3.	Is there an easy way to divide up the gnus-group-get-new-news function
> 	into two functions:  gnus-group-get-new-news (which obeys NoCeM) and
> 	gnus-group-get-new-mail (which doesn't)?  (This doesn't matter if
> 	either 1 or 2 can be answered in the positive.)

I wrote this function to do exactly that.  I bind it to C-M-g.  Note
that this only works for nnml backends (though I'm sure it can be
easily converted to other nn*).

(defun gnus-group-get-new-nnml ()
  "Get new mail only."
  (interactive)
  (let ((gnus-group-new-mail-list nil)
	(method '(nnml ""))
	(nnml-prepare-save-mail-hook
	 (cons '(lambda ()
		  (setq gnus-group-new-mail-list
			(union gnus-group-new-mail-list
			       (mapcar 'car group-art))))
	       nnml-prepare-save-mail-hook)))
    (when (gnus-check-server method)
      (gnus-request-scan nil method))
    (while gnus-group-new-mail-list
      (let ((gnus-group-marked (mapcar '(lambda (group)
					  (concat "nnml:" group))
				       gnus-group-new-mail-list)))
	(setq gnus-group-new-mail-list (cdr gnus-group-new-mail-list))
	(gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group)))
    (when gnus-goto-next-group-when-activating
      (gnus-group-next-unread-group 1 t))
    (gnus-summary-position-point)
    (run-hooks 'gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook)
    (gnus-group-list-groups)))


> However, I should point out that I'm gradually incorporating my email (finally)
> into Gnus, and dang, I love this thing.  Only 80 more old mailfolders and a
> LOT of procmail recipes to go.  :)

Don't forget that your old folders can be just viewed with nnfolder,
and you can just continute using nnfolder as your backend.

If you want to actually convert them to nnml, you can `G f' the file
in *Group*, then in *Summary*, `C-c C-s C-n', followed by `9999 #',
followed by `B c'.

Of course, first you need to convert your procmail to nnmail-split.

-- 
Colin