nnimap: biff like behavior when getting new mail

nnimap: biff like behavior when getting new mail

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello


Since I receive a 300 SPAM message a day I switched from fetchmail to
gnus in order to filter spam directly on the imap server (no other
email program can do this as far as I know.) 

However now I miss xbiff and  the alike which informed  me that I have
new mail. I can  run gnus-group-get-new-news periodically, but  when I
am  editing a another  buffer  I don't notice,   whether new  mail has
arrived, is there anyway that gnus could inform me that new mail
arrived on the imap server?

Thanks


Uwe Brauer 

Re: nnimap: biff like behavior when getting new mail

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, oub@mat.ucm.es wrote:

On 18 Feb 2004, tzz@lifelogs.com wrote:

>> http://lifelogs.com/source/ifrom.txt
>>
>> which can do a quick list of messages, or print individual ones
>> ("ifrom.pl 1 2 3").  It has some other nice functionality, such as
>> moving messages and backing up your whole IMAP account.  It's
>> evolved over the years, sorry if it looks scary :)

> ok I have a look thanks, it will work with any folder in the imap
> server?

Give it the -mailbox option.

Ted

Re: nnimap: biff like behavior when getting new mail

[Marcus Frings]

* David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> wrote:

> I've seen at least a couple of similar mail monitors that handle
> IMAP.  Digging through the Debian package listing, there's at least
> flink (GNOME panel applet), gbuffy (like xbiff), gnubiff (either),
> wmmail (windowmaker dockapp).  There are also standalone programs to
> do various sorts of mail sorting on the IMAP server.

My favourite is wmbiff (WindowMaker dockapp) which really kicks ass:

,----[ [23:08][marcus@xenon:~]$ apt-cache show wmbiff ]
| At this moment, wmbiff supports unix-style, maildir, pop3, APOP, IMAP
| and IMAPS mailboxes, as well as Licq and GnomeICU history files.
`----

Regards,
Marcus
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