Re: Newbies questions

[someusernamehere <someusernamehere@gmail.com>]

On Jul 25, 6:59 pm, Karl Kleinpaste <inva...@kleinpaste.org> wrote:
> someusernamehere <someusernameh...@gmail.com> writes:
> > mmmm simply this doesn't work for me, I have setup the mail with
> > level 2 and news with level 3 and pasted these lines in my .gnus.el
> > but my gnus dont scan for new mail never
>
> Well, objectively, it does work.  I've been using those capabilities
> for a decade or more.
>
> Did you restart Gnus, in order that .gnus.el would be re-evaluated?
> If you did restart Gnus, what happened after 5min?  There won't be any
> big announcement by Gnus -- it will just abruptly go off to check for
> mail without any advance confirmation or preparation.


I know what is the problem, is needed initialize gnus-demon-init
manually, I dont know why
manually, so I have this in my .emacs but doesnt work

(setq gnus-use-demon t)
(gnus-demon-init)
(gnus-compile)

if I initialize manually ( M-x gnus-demon-init RET ) all works OK.

:-/

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