Re: Scan-mail daemon

[Andrew A. Raines]

David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:

> I have added the lines
>
> (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail 5 nil)
> (gnus-demon-init)
>
> to my .gnus file.
>
> Now Gnus checks for new mail every 5 minutes, as I
> intended, but the *Group* buffer doesn't show any changes
> even if there is new mail, so it's not very useful.
>
> Is there a way of getting the buffer to update?

Maybe you mean one of these instead of gnus-demon-scan-mail?

,----[ C-h f gnus-demon-scan-mail-and-update RET ]
| gnus-demon-scan-mail-and-update is a Lisp function in `~/.gnus'.
| (gnus-demon-scan-mail-and-update)
| 
| Scan for new mail, updating the *Group* buffer.
| 
| [back]
`----

,----[ C-h f gnus-demon-scan-news-and-update RET ]
| gnus-demon-scan-news-and-update is a Lisp function in `~/.gnus'.
| (gnus-demon-scan-news-and-update)
| 
| Scan for new mail, updating the *Group* buffer.
| 
| [back]
`----

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