Re: Gnus and new mail notification

[Richard Riley]

Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@users.sf.net> writes:

> 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).

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.

That said I must try the daemon again as I havent used it for a while.