From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12713 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Limpach Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ideas needed for nnmail-pop3-movemail Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:47:43 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <199710271347.OAA18660@neelix.iiic.ethz.ch> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152200 5264 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:16:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:16:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04006 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 07:14:48 -0800 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA01641 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:16:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id OAA06156 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:47:18 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (qmail 29494 invoked by uid 504); 27 Oct 1997 13:47:16 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29491 invoked from network); 27 Oct 1997 13:47:15 -0000 Original-Received: from neelix.iiic.ethz.ch (129.132.71.57) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 27 Oct 1997 13:47:14 -0000 Original-Received: (from chris@localhost) by neelix.iiic.ethz.ch (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA18660; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:47:43 +0100 (MET) Original-To: "(ding)" In-Reply-To: (message from Stainless Steel Rat on , 26 October 1997 15:31:08 -0500) Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12713 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12713 > CL> If it is so, then the code which asks for passwords should be removed > CL> from pop3 altogether. > > No, it shouldn't, because it is part of the basic POP3 specification. To > wit, in order to be a complete API it needs to be able to submit > authentication information to the POP server. It needs to be able to submit authentification information to the POP server, but it doesn't have to interactively query the user for that information. It would still be a complete API if you removed the interactive query function. There's no interactive query function for host, user, port, whatever in pop3.el and you still consider it to be complete, so why would there be an interactive query function for authentification information ? I think you should move the interactive query function out of pop3-pass (and pop3-apop) into pop3-movemail. I can agree with the rest of what you wrote, i.e. pop3-movemail is not to be used for anything serious and gnus should have a nnmail-pop3-movemail function which uses the pop3 API directly. christian