Re: POP3 support

[William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>]

Richard Pieri wrote:
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> >>>>> "KR" == Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com> writes:
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> KR> Just as long as I can still run movemail to talk to my pop server.  I
> KR> assume you didn't implement Kerberos authentication (including DES
> KR> encryption) in elisp? :-)
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> Don't tempt me :).
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> Actually, implementing 'extensions' is simple because, unlike vm-pop,
> pop3 does implement the full set of basic POP3 commands (except LIST
> which is generally useless).
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> There are two reasons why I did not implement APOP.  One, my POP server,
> the Qualcomm qpopper, does not understand it so I cannot test it.  Two,
> I have not dug up a precompiled MD5 filter program for Win32, which is
> where I have been doing most of my development work.  This is currently
> on the to-do list.

  There is a reasonably fast implementation of md5 in elisp.  Check out
the latest url package.  Or I can send you the md5.el manually if you'd
like.  You can specify a maximum message size before it shells out to a
subprocess.  Pretty nice.  Plus XEmacs has builtin md5 support (not that
that helps with win32 (yet))

-Bill P.