From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17701 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Problem trying to get new email every 10 minutes automatically Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:08:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87mvvgqsyy.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <84eggs61za.fsf@example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445169604 27741 80.91.229.3 (18 Oct 2015 12:00:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:00:04 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 18 13:59:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Znmd0-0005Eh-6W for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:59:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33358 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znmcz-0006LR-CQ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42331) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znmcw-0006LI-8e for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znmcs-0007Yl-4e for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:59:50 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41322) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znmcr-0007Yh-Th for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:59:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Znmco-00054S-7P for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:59:42 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:59:42 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:59:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OdMUZiBKK15ZcMzCURiXp8qJgv4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17701 Archived-At: David Hume writes: > My guess is it is using run-with-idle-timer which > behaves differently from what you would expect. If you > do nothing in emacs for 10 minutes it might get mail. > But if you press a key the timer is reset. > Also I think after it has got mail it doesn't set the > idle timer going again unless you do something. I'm not getting it to work either: (require 'cl) (require 'gnus-demon) (defvar *its*) (setq *its* 0) (gnus-demon-add-handler (lambda () (incf *its*) (message "One second! %s" (make-string *its* ?.)) ) 1 nil) ; IDLE; run every second regardless of user input The function doesn't get called. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573