Re: How to make Emacs Gnus to get new mails automatically?

[ST]

On Fri, 2016-07-22 at 13:52 +0200, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> ST writes:
> 
> > ps: I tried that:
> > gnus-demon-handlers's value is ((gnus-delay-send-queue 1 nil)
> >  (gnus-demon-scan-news 5 5))
> >
> > but it didn't fetch the emails even after waiting 10 min.
> 
> Did you stay away from Emacs for at least 5 minutes?
> 
> The demon only kicks in when Emacs is idle (i.e. you don't use Emacs at
> all. No typing, no nothing).

Yes, absolutely nothing.
I now see that I didn't define an smtp account to use for sending out
emails - could this be a problem?

How can I debug the issue generally?

What other options besides Gnus would you suggest for IMAP?

Thank you!