Re: Starting shell scripts when fetching news/mail?

[Chris Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca>]

Of possible relevance are the following lines from my .emacs

(custom-set-variables
 '(gnus-before-startup-hook (quote (my-pull-newsrc)))
 '(gnus-after-exiting-gnus-hook (quote (my-push-newsrc))))

(defun my-push-newsrc ()
  "Copy Gnus state to remote host"
  (interactive)
  (let ((this-buffer (current-buffer))
        (output-buffer (get-buffer "*rsync command output*")))
    (cond 
     ((yes-or-no-p (format "Push Gnus state to remote host? "))
      (switch-to-buffer output-buffer)
      (message "Copying files to remote host, please wait...")
      (call-process "/home/krzys/src/sh/push-newsrc" 
                    nil
                    "*rsync command output*"
                    1)
      (message "Done")
      (switch-to-buffer this-buffer)))))

(defun my-pull-newsrc ()
  "Copy Gnus state from remote host"
  (interactive)
  (let ((this-buffer (current-buffer))
        (output-buffer (get-buffer "*rsync command output*")))
    (cond 
     ((yes-or-no-p (format "Pull Gnus state from remote host? "))
      (switch-to-buffer output-buffer)
      (message "Copying files from remote host, please wait...")
      (call-process "/home/krzys/src/sh/pull-newsrc" 
                    nil
                    "*rsync command output*"
                    1)
      (message "Done")
      (switch-to-buffer this-buffer)))))


-chris

"Jeppe N. Madsen" <jeppenm@worldonline.dk> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been running Gnus 5.8 for quite a while on W2k/Cygwin/Xemacs and
> now it's time to tweak the setup :-)
> 
> I'm using a number of foreign servers and one requires a ssh tunnel
> to connect. While it's not a big deal to open a shell and start a
> shell script it would be nice if it was possible for Gnus to
> automagically start this when fetching news. Is this possible? Or
> rather has anyone done this successfully and have some code to share?
> 
> I'm also using Gnus to read mail from a pop3 server. I've recently
> installed SpamAssassin/pop3proxy and while it works, again I need to
> fire up a shell to get it rolling. So the same question goes for
> fetching mail: is it possible to start a shell before fetching the
> mail?
> 
> rgds
> Jeppe