Re: Scan-mail daemon

[David Sumbler]

"Andrew A. Raines" <aaraines@pobox.com> writes:

> 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]
> `----

I don't seem to have either of these functions, in my Gnus v5.10.6.
Which version do you have?

David

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