Re: Checking groups independently every few minutes

[Paulo Jorge de O. C. de Matos]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:


> 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.
>

OK, thanks I will look into it then. How about setting up to check
everything every 30min? Also, is there a way to check it without
blocking the other buffers?


> 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.
>

I guess EPA is what I want then. :) Looking to it!


Cheers,
-- 
Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm
PhD Student @ ECS
University of Southampton, UK