Re: Notification of new email at gmail?

[thierry . volpiatto]

Hi,

Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi Bob!
>
>> I am now using emacs to dirctly send and receive email using gmail as
>> the mail server.  This works well except that new mail notification on
>> the mode line no longer works as the mail doesn't appear in any file on
>> the computer until VM is invoked.  Is there any application available
>> that can provide the notification function on the mode line?  I've found
>> independent applications that will popup a notification on my desktop,
>> but I would much prefer to keep it in the emacs mode line.
>
> I don't use VM myself, but a quick look at the documentation seems to
> indicate that you need to set the `vm-auto-get-new-mail' variable:
>
>   *Non-nil value causes VM to automatically move mail from spool files
>   to a mail folder when the folder is first visited.  Nil means
>   you must always use `vm-get-new-mail' to pull in newly arrived messages.
>
>   If the value is a number, then it specifies how often (in
>   seconds) VM should check for new mail and try to retrieve it.
>   This is done asynchronously and may occur while you are editing
>   other files.  It should not disturb your editing, except perhaps
>   for a pause while the check is being done."
>
> I used a similar setting in my setup once - I'm using wanderlust - but
> it became too annoying: if your internet connection hangs or mail
> provider becomes unresponsive your whole emacs session hangs. So maybe
> you'd rather go back and use fetchmail/getmail or some external
> utility - wmmail is one, but there sure are others that also get the
> job done. 

Have a look at warn-mail.el. It work with fetchmail.

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/warn-mail.el

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A + Thierry Volpiatto
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