Re: Gnus and new mail notification

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@users.sf.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:19:42 +0100, Richard Riley wrote:
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Concrete example: if splitting includes spam rules, gnubiff will notify
>>>> you of spam too.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes that is most certainly true. Since I use googlemail I'm kind of
>>> spoiled as their spam filtering server side is pretty good these days
>>> (that and my spam-split set up doesnt work anymore on NoGnus) and so I
>>> turned off client side "spam-split"ting.
>>
>> If you use gmail, you can have easy mail notification with:
>>
>> https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom
>>
>> It give you an xml buffer you have to parse.
>>
>> A library exists on emacswiki for this, don't remember the name, it
>> didn't work for me so i wrote small code for this for my personal use, i
>> can send it if interested.
>> Of course if one use gnus-demon, it's non--sense to use this.
>
> Just as an FYI to the OP if new to Gnus, I have found the best set up
> for me with Gnus is dovecot locally fed by offlineimap which is run as a
> cron job every half hour or so.
I use here offlineimap.el that is started each time i start gnus.
http://julien.danjou.info/offlineimap-el.html
I think that coupled with a gmail notification is better than a cronjob.
 
> nnir search works really well and of
> course there are then no performance or bandwidth issues with Gnus
> talking imap with remote gmail servers. Plus you have a local copy of
> your mail. Here is one "how to" for the set up:
>
> http://sachachua.com/blog/2008/05/geek-how-to-use-offlineimap-and-the-dovecot-mail-server-to-read-your-gmail-in-emacs-efficiently/
> http://tinyurl.com/26cwmok

I have also started to use dovecot/offlineimap, however it's was not so
easy to configure dovecot, especially the mail_location, what is
described in sacha blog is deprecated.

So here i use for gmail:
,----[ dovecot config ]
| mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/Maildir/INBOX
`----
Hope that's help

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