Neil Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Feb 15 2005, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > >> * Can I automatically have gnus download new messages from the various >> imap accounts after a certain time period? > > > ,----[ (info "(gnus)Daemons") ] > | Gnus, being larger than any program ever written (allegedly), does lots > | of strange stuff that you may wish to have done while you're not > | present. For instance, you may want it to check for new mail once in a > | while. Or you may want it to close down all connections to all servers > | when you leave Emacs idle. And stuff like that. > | > | Gnus will let you do stuff like that by defining various "handlers". > | Each handler consists of three elements: A FUNCTION, a TIME, and an > | IDLE parameter. > `---- > > E.g., the following lines added to your ~/.gnus will download new > messages every 10 minutes: > > (require 'gnus-demon) > (setq gnus-use-demon t) > (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-group-get-new-news 10 t) > (gnus-demon-init) > (gnus-demon-add-rescan)
Thanks so much for this, it works beautifully, so beautifully I keep forgetting it is there. rohan _______________________________________________ Info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
