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1.4: Getting New Mail

Pressing g runs vm-get-new-mail, which will retrieve mail from all the spool files associated with the current folder. See Spool Files.

If the value of the variable vm-auto-get-new-mail is non-nil VM will retrieve mail for a folder whenever the folder is visited. If the value is a positive integer n, VM will also check for new mail every n seconds for all folders currently being visited. If new mail is present, VM will retrieve it.

If the value of the variable vm-mail-check-interval is a positive integer n, VM will check for new mail every n seconds, but instead of retrieving mail, the word ``Mail'' will appear on the Emacs mode line of folders that have mail waiting.

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