From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert L Knighten Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Notification of new email at gmail? Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:55:46 -0700 Message-ID: <86k555vh8t.fsf@zeus.knighten.org> References: <86prf2dfi3.fsf@zeus.knighten.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240875651 1303 80.91.229.12 (27 Apr 2009 23:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:40:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 28 01:40:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LyaRG-00058L-Iw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51397 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LyaRF-0001sd-DC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:40:41 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:55:47 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WIjrBtWGOT0wpRyBXArueIVUnCI= Original-Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-23vItPa/PaNjI3pCCdlfzOXXTEsS5ZihvEQmLYmuvbGaO74wQ3DB7Hzcn0EHjfzZJziZsyKDiSof/GU!df5715wIQiTh1JWyIU/ZLEgFB/Ehab3a7Dd6jfdO4X2OWnaesCJPD8DM Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 X-Original-Bytes: 2312 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168784 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64057 Archived-At: Robert L Knighten 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 -- Robert L. Knighten RLK@knighten.org