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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
  • Gmail
• 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.