From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24513 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: minor nit with pgnus mail-fetching Date: 26 Jul 1999 22:20:56 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162068 9154 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:01:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:01:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15401 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:25:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAB21507; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:21:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:22:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA16345 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:22:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from amber.ccs.neu.edu (root@amber.ccs.neu.edu [129.10.116.51]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15270 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:20:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from betelgeuse.ccs.neu.edu (dworkin@betelgeuse.ccs.neu.edu [129.10.116.100]) by amber.ccs.neu.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA04065 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:20:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from dworkin@localhost) by betelgeuse.ccs.neu.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id WAA11578; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:20:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24513 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24513 I've probably explained my mail-handling process here before a couple of times, but I'll do so again for background. I filter via procmail into spools in ~/Mail/incoming, one per nnml group. For various reasons, this suits my needs better than using Gnus splitting. One thing that I do quite frequently is M-g over a given mail group. An advantage of my mail setup in this situation is that it does not have to process any mail for groups other than the one I am interested in. My nnmail-spool-file is `((directory :path ,(expand-file-name "~/Mail/incoming") :suffix "")) If I M-g over a group that does have new mail, Gnus acts as expected: nnml: Reading incoming mail from directory... Wrote blah/blah/43 Wrote blah/blah/44 Wrote blah/blah/45 nnml: Reading incoming mail (3 new)...done However, if I M-g over a group with no new mail, Gnus simply says: nnml: Reading incoming mail from directory... and never says "done" or "no news" or even erases the message. Thus, one does not immediately know if it is taking Gnus a long time to access the file or if there is in fact no mail there. This is suboptimal behavior. I've taken a quick look at the relevant code, but I do not have the time to invesitgate as deeply as I would like. -Justin