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Re: Notification of new email at gmail?
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Robert L Knighten |
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Re: Notification of new email at gmail? |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:55:46 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) |
Robert L Knighten <RLK0@knighten.org> writes:
> 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.
Following up on the various replies, I recently switched from using
fetchmail to deliver mail to spool files to simply using VM with pop-ssl
inside Emacs to directly fetch mail from Google. So before invoking
vm-get-new-mail the mail is only on the Google server. I can indeed
automatically poll Google, but because this is being done for multiple
accounts spread across a local network that is more costly than just
using fetchmail to deliver to the spool files. There appear to be other
alternatives, but I haven't seen any of them used in Emacs. I they
have, that is what I am looking for.
-- Bob
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Robert L. Knighten
RLK@knighten.org