Re: Gnus+procmail and display-time

[Jason R Mastaler <jason@mastaler.com>]

Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Nelson" == Nelson Jose dos Santos Ferreira <Nelson.Ferreira@inesc.pt> writes:
> 
> Nelson> I use procmail to split my mail, and then read it with
> Nelson> gnus. It's a lot faster than nnmail-split !!!  The down side
> Nelson> is I no longer have the mail indicator on the modeline :(
> 
> Nelson> I'm thinking of moving the entire procmail files to a
> Nelson> directory where gnus will then read the mail. display-time
> Nelson> will check the log there.
> 
> I file all my "direct to me, not from a mailing list" email into
> a single folder (my "inbox", because it was rooted in my MH usage).
> For me, this is:
> 
> 	/home/merlyn/.incoming/inbox.spool
> 
> I then included the following two lines in my .login:
> 
>         setenv MAIL /home/merlyn/.incoming/inbox.spool
>         set mail=$MAIL
> 
> Works like a charm.  GNU Emacs picks it up, and flags new Mail.  The
> shells announce "you've got mail".  Heck, even the "from(1)" command
> works. :-)

This only works with GNU Emacs however.  XEmacs doesn't recognize when
you've set $MAIL.  XEmacs users need to set `display-time-mail-file'
in the .emacs to get modeline mail notification working again.

   Jason R. Mastaler                      jason@mastaler.com