Re: Fetching mail in gnus

[Frédéric Perrin]

Hello,

Le mercredi 30 à 22:24, Wolfgang Pausch a écrit :
> First: I have pop as mail source type. Is it ok to omit all parameters
> except :program, and feed :program with the path of a shell script
> which in turn calls getmail with an appropriate configuration file
> containing the account information? I suspect yes, but to be sure I
> ask.

If you're going to use getmail, it should be easyier to setup cron to
fetch your mail every 5 minutes, tell getmail to deliver mail to a
Maildir, and then tell emacs to read mail off that Maildir. Actually,
that's my current setyp. One big advandage will be that we you tell gnus
to fetch new mail, they will be read from your disk, and not over the
network. And since emacs is single threaded, it will "hang" while
fetching mail through the network.

> Second: When I enter a mail group from the group buffer, all mails
> currently located in the backend (and being in the right state) are
> shown. But, what's not yet clear to me is: Under what circumstances
> does gnu actually fetch mail from the mail source, i.e. call the shell
> script in my setup described above? Do I have to invoke some extra
> command I not yet found, or is this done when I enter the group, or
> periodically according to some configuration settings,...?

Press g (gnus-group-get-new-news) when in the *Group* buffer, or M-g
(gnus-summary-rescan-group) from a specific Summary buffer.

-- 
Fred