10.11 Notifications ¶

Gnus provides the gnus-notifications package that, combined with a gnus-demon handler, can be used to notify you when fresh news or mails arrive via desktop notifications. Here’s a basic configuration to put in your ~/.gnus.el file:

(require 'gnus-notifications)
(add-hook 'gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook #'gnus-notifications)
(gnus-demon-add-handler #'gnus-demon-scan-news 15 3) ;every 15 minutes

The above will produce notifications for new arrivals when the gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook hook runs, which is triggered after retrieving news and mails with the gnus-demon-scan-news procedure. The demon handler is configured to scan news every fifteen minutes, once Emacs has been idle for three minutes.

Important: gnus-notifications will only emit notifications for groups whose level is equal or lower than gnus-notifications-minimum-level, which defaults to 1, so make sure to set the level of the groups you want to be notified for to 1, or adjust the value of gnus-notifications-minimum-level to your needs.