Re: How to manually download new mail with nnml-get-new-mail set to nil?

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

>>>>> "David" == David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:

    David> Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@mb3.seikyou.ne.jp> writes:
    >> If I set
    >> 
    >> (setq nnml-get-new-mail t)
    >> 
    >> then M-g does work on mail groups, but unfortunately this
    >> setting also automatically downloads all mail messages when I
    >> start up gnus for the first time.
    >> 
    >> I did not find any command relevant to downloading mail
    >> manually on demand, so I am at the moment using the above
    >> variable set to nil on gnus startup and then switch it to t
    >> when I want to download mail, and then switch it back to nil
    >> again. Not very elegant!

    David> You could write a Lisp function to do that for you
    David> (untested):

    David> (defun (gh-get-new-news &optional arg) (interactive) (let
    David> ((nnml-get-new-mail t)) (gnus-group-get-new-news arg)))
    David> (define-key gnus-group-mode-map "g" 'gh-get-new-news)

    David> ...and similarly for M-g if you want to use that.

Hi David, that sounds like good idea. I thought it might be in gnus
already, since there are more functions there than I know about :-)
Anything to avoid lisp, initially, anyway.

Thanks again,
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G Hassenpflug