Re: Gnus and new mail notification

[Richard Riley]

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.

regards

r.