From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60308 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Sullivan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: fetchmail or pop3 mail source? Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:56:31 -0400 Message-ID: <87sm0t1l68.fsf@ashbery.wjsullivan.net> References: <874qddwrs3.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116033046 16871 80.91.229.2 (14 May 2005 01:10:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 01:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8835@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 14 03:10:41 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWlAj-0007Mn-Fj for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 14 May 2005 03:10:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DWl7O-0001e1-00; Fri, 13 May 2005 20:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DW0TI-0003Vh-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:18:32 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DW0TD-0001qP-FE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:18:27 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DW0TB-0006vN-00 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:18:25 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DW0LV-0007Ow-9K for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:10:29 +0200 Original-Received: from dsl092-079-150.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.79.150]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:10:29 +0200 Original-Received: from john by dsl092-079-150.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:10:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl092-079-150.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KJD6A1r2tbRmCoCHRy1OSKuisEQ= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60308 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60308 Steinar Bang writes: > After many years of nnimap, I'm in the process of adding a POP3 mail source > with nnml mail folders. > > Does anyone have any good reasons to use either fetchmail with delivery into > the local mail spool file (this is a linux laptop), or a Gnus pop3 source? > I use fetchmail because it means my Gnus/emacs session is not tied up while mail is being fetched for as long. It only takes a second to fetch it from the local mail spool file, but it can take some time to get it from a remote POP3 source. Particularly since I often fetch mail over GPRS, which can get a bit slow. -- -johnsu01 -http://www.wjsullivan.net -GPG Key: AE8600B6