Re: Enabling auto mail checking

Re: Enabling auto mail checking

[Subhankar Chatterjee]

Hello,

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Subhankar Chatterjee <subhankar@dzineassociates.com> writes:
> 
> > How do I enable auto mail checking in Gnus v5.9.
> 
> The key word to search for in the documentation is "demon" or
> "daemon" (try both).

Brain-damage on my part I suppose. But I am not getting the clear picture. I
have put the following lines in my ~/.gnus :

        (setq gnus-use-demon t)
        (gnus-demon-init)       

        (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-add-nntp-close-connection 10 nil)
        (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-add-scanmail 15 nil)

I want to close the connections to the nntp news server after 10 minutes and
get new mail at every 15 minute interval. Am I going right or just banging my
head? 

And how does Gnus actually inform me about new mail? On the mode-line?

Regards
-Subhankar


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Re: Enabling auto mail checking

[Benjamin Rutt]

Subhankar Chatterjee <subhankar@dzineassociates.com> writes:

>> ;; majorly borrowed from Karl Kleinpaste 
>> (defun my-gnus-get-new-mail ()
>>   "Fetch new mails at level 1 only."
>>   (when (and (gnus-alive-p)
>> 	     (> (nth 7 (file-attributes (getenv "MAIL"))) 0))
>>     (let ((gnus-verbose-backends 1)
>> 	  (gnus-verbose 1)
>> 	  (win (current-window-configuration)))
>>       (unwind-protect
>> 	  (save-window-excursion
>> 	    (save-excursion
>> 	      (set-buffer gnus-group-buffer)
>> 	      (gnus-group-get-new-news 1)))
>> 	(set-window-configuration win)))))
>> (gnus-demon-add-handler 'my-gnus-get-new-mail 5 nil)
>
> But how to implement this for my pop3 mailboxes? I have two pop3
> mailboxes that I use to get mails.

You should turn

   (when (and (gnus-alive-p)
           (> (nth 7 (file-attributes (getenv "MAIL"))) 0))

into

   (when (gnus-alive-p)

And it should work well, as long as your mail groups are on level 1.
(You can set a mail group to level 1 by doing 'S l' from the group
buffer).
-- 
Benjamin

Re: [SOLVED]Enabling auto mail checking

[calmar]

Subhankar Chatterjee <subhankar@dzineassociates.com> writes:


>
> ;; majorly borrowed from Karl Kleinpaste 
> (defun my-gnus-get-new-mail ()
>   "Fetch new mails at level 1 only."
>   (when (gnus-alive-p)
>     (let ((gnus-verbose-backends 1)
> 	  (gnus-verbose 1)
> 	  (win (current-window-configuration)))
>       (unwind-protect
> 	  (save-window-excursion
> 	    (save-excursion
> 	      (set-buffer gnus-group-buffer)
> 	      (gnus-group-get-new-news 1)))
> 	(set-window-configuration win)))))
> (gnus-demon-add-handler 'my-gnus-get-new-mail 15 nil)
>
Hi,

Thanks a lot for the Summary ..

yet how does Gnus notify you after `he' fetched some new mails?
Maybe this (gnus-group-get-new-news) has a return value (what is
likely) which can be used for further processing --> play a sound
or a little script which shows a little pop-up windows or similar

I don't know much about lisp, but I freely guess:

(and (gnus-group-get-new-news 1) (execute 'externel
script/program which pop-ups a message)

Any Idea how this can be done in reality?

Greetings

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