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Mathias Dahl wrote:

| I've just recently started to use GNUS and I wonder if there is a
| way to make GNUS inform we when there are new articles to read. That
| is, without me needing to press "g" to update the group buffer. I
| took a quick look in the index of the manual and tried to search for
| words like "time", "update", "interval" but did not find anything
| interesting.

Try this:

(setq gnus-use-demon t)                 ; Use some daemonic routines
(gnus-demon-add-handler                 ; Scan for mail in the background
 'gnus-demon-scan-mail-ps 5 1)
(gnus-demon-add-handler                 ; Scan for news in the background
 'gnus-demon-scan-news 5 1)

-- 
SB

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