Re: Can GNUS inform me when I have unread news?

[Marcus Frings]

* s1726@ii.uib.no (Steinar Børmer) wrote:
> Mathias Dahl wrote:

> | I've just recently started to use GNUS and I wonder if there is a
> | way to make GNUS inform we when there are new articles to read. That
> | is, without me needing to press "g" to update the group buffer. I
> | took a quick look in the index of the manual and tried to search for
> | words like "time", "update", "interval" but did not find anything
> | interesting.

> (setq gnus-use-demon t)                 ; Use some daemonic routines

Does not exist.

> (gnus-demon-add-handler                 ; Scan for mail in the background
>  'gnus-demon-scan-mail-ps 5 1)
> (gnus-demon-add-handler                 ; Scan for news in the background
>  'gnus-demon-scan-news 5 1)

<http://my.gnus.org/node/view/302>

Regards,
Marcus
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