Re: Checking groups independently every few minutes

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 11 May 2008 15:19:38 +0100 pocm@soton.ac.uk (Paulo Jorge de O. C. de 
Matos) wrote: 

PJdOCdM> Is it possible to setup a configuration such that different groups get
PJdOCdM> checked for new messages at different intervals? For example, 
newsgroups
PJdOCdM> would be checked every 60 minutes, feeds, every 30 minutes and emails
PJdOCdM> every 2 minutes?

Not currently, but it's been requested before.  If you set the levels
for your topics/groups appropriately, you can ask for only levels N and
above to be refreshed.  That may be enough for you.

PJdOCdM> More over, with mails I use the nnimap to access google mail. Is there
PJdOCdM> any good way to securely keep the username and password in order to
PJdOCdM> avoid always entering it?

You want a ~/.authinfo file with contents like this:

machine xyz.com port imaps login tzz password YOURPASS

There's been many posts from GMail users about setting Gnus up with it,
and there are some peculiarities.

If you're running a recent Emacs, look into the EPA library to encrypt
your authinfo file.  If not, you can try the encrypt.el library in Gnus,
but it's going away in favor of EPA so I wouldn't use it.

Ted