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Re: Gnus and new mail notification


From: Yuri D'Elia
Subject: Re: Gnus and new mail notification
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:56:29 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

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).

Of course, this only makes sense if you fetch mail/news regularly with
gnus-demon and leave gnus running.




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