From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Subject: Re: nnmail-spool-file should be a list...
Date: 08 Apr 1997 14:13:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wwqdw73g.fsf@kramer.in.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of 08 Apr 1997 13:21:10 -0700
wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
> You should be able to specify multiple spool files, ala VM. I would
> propose renaming nnmail-spool-file -> nnmail-spool-files, ala
> vm-spool-files. I get mail from several places, and currently I can't get
> to all of it from within Gnus.
>
> I'd like to be able to say:
>
> (setq nnmail-spool-files '("po:wmperry@aventail.com"
> "po:wmperry@cs.indiana.edu"
> "/var/spool/mail/wmperry"))
>
> To get mail from my aventail account, my ISP account, and the local spool
> file. This would entail changes to the pop support to cache passwords
> based on username/host.
>
> It actually looks like nnmail is already smart enough to deal with multiple
> spool files, just nnmail-get-spool-files needs to have new code to deal
> with nnmail-spool-files being a list.
>
> Anybody want to hack on this? I might get to it this weekend otherwise.
Duh, it can be a list. But I still need to hack the pop support to have
some way to specify the host for pop retrieval. Or am I overlooking
something there as well.
-Bill P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-04-08 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-04-08 20:21 William M. Perry
1997-04-08 21:13 ` William M. Perry [this message]
1997-04-09 0:13 ` Sudish Joseph
1997-04-09 4:25 ` William M. Perry
1997-04-09 0:38 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-04-09 2:17 ` John McClary Prevost
1997-04-09 4:49 ` William M. Perry
1997-04-09 8:58 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-04-09 11:49 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-04-09 14:16 ` William M. Perry
1997-04-09 17:45 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-04-09 22:25 ` Stainless Steel Rat
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