Gnus email demon
In Gnus you can configure demons to do things automatically.
You can write your own elisp function to be called when Gnus/Emacs has been idle for an amount of time, or you can use one of the builtin provided ones.
This is what I use, in my ~/.gnus
:
; Demon to fetch email every 5 minutes when Emacs has been idle for 5 minutes: (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-news 5 5) (gnus-demon-init)
As the comments says: when Emacs has been idle for 5 minutes, the demon will start to automatically fetch email every 5 minutes.
Further reading...
Beginning of the Gnus email tutorial.
Topics to cover as time permits:
- Basic usage
- IMAP
- Spam filtering
- Address book (bbdb)
- Searching
- Prompting (expert user)
- Encryption (gpg)
- Scoring
- Posting styles
- Automatically fetching email (demon)
- Ad-hoc accessing of emails (foreign servers)
Contact
If you have any comments, ideas or corrections, don't hesitate to email me.