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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.