From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14407 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Gnus and new mail notification Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:19:42 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293320421 26995 80.91.229.12 (25 Dec 2010 23:40:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:40:21 +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 Dec 26 00:40:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PWdih-0001ev-Cs for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:40:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PWdig-0008Oa-Ro for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:40:14 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1293319182 19338 85.183.18.158 (25 Dec 2010 23:19:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:19:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:85135 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14407 Archived-At: Yuri D'Elia writes: > On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:31:43 +0100, Richard Riley wrote: >> I'm interested how this helps - I think I'm missing something. Since >> this can only work in Gnus when Gnus sees new mail what purpose does it >> server since Gnus has already fetched the mail : isnt a third party >> imap/maildir asynchronous monitor a better solution for this external >> notification process? > > As soon as you use splitting or virtual groups, an external process > becomes useless (for instance, I have several rules that split messages > into groups that I ignore). Not if you dont use the demon and then split when you hit g. In other words you only fetch your mail when gnubiff or something similar tells you that you have new mail. That said I must try the daemon again as I havent used it for a while.