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Subject: Re: Update or refresh nnimap buffer in summary mode
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Neil Woods <cnw+usenet@pobox.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 15 2005, Rohan Nicholls wrote:
>
>> * Can I automatically have gnus download new messages from the various
>> imap accounts after a certain time period?
>
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Daemons") ]
> | Gnus, being larger than any program ever written (allegedly), does lots
> | of strange stuff that you may wish to have done while you're not
> | present.  For instance, you may want it to check for new mail once in a
> | while.  Or you may want it to close down all connections to all servers
> | when you leave Emacs idle.  And stuff like that.
> | 
> |    Gnus will let you do stuff like that by defining various "handlers".
> | Each handler consists of three elements:  A FUNCTION, a TIME, and an
> | IDLE parameter.
> `----
>
> E.g., the following lines added to your ~/.gnus will download new
> messages every 10 minutes:
>
> (require 'gnus-demon)
> (setq gnus-use-demon t)
> (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-group-get-new-news 10 t)
> (gnus-demon-init)
> (gnus-demon-add-rescan)

Thanks so much for this, it works beautifully, so beautifully I keep
forgetting it is there.

rohan