GNUS demon/periodic scan for new mails

GNUS demon/periodic scan for new mails

[Dhruva Krishnamurthy]

Hello,
 I would like to periodically check for my IMAP mails. I am using this in my
 .emacs (instead of .gnus, as I do not want to keep another file).

      ;; refresh mails at defined intervals
      (setq gnus-use-demon t)
      (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail 2 nil)

I am not getting the expected behaviour. Am I missing something. I am using
GNUS 5.11 from CVS Emacs.

with best regards,
dhruva

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Re: GNUS demon/periodic scan for new mails

[Stephen Patterson]

Dhruva Krishnamurthy <Dhruva.Krishnamurthy@in.bosch.com> writes:

> Hello,
>  I would like to periodically check for my IMAP mails. I am using this in my
>  .emacs (instead of .gnus, as I do not want to keep another file).

I'm finding this bit of elisp works - checks for new mail at levels 2 &
above every 5 minutes.

(defun my-check-mail ()
  "Fetch new mails only."
  (gnus-group-get-new-news 2))
(add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook
	  '(lambda ()
	     (gnus-demon-add-handler 'my-check-mail 5 0)))


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