Re: PATCH: pop3.el (pop3-movemail): handle network errors

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

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* pahe@daimi.au.dk (Peter von der Ahé)  on Wed, 07 Apr 1999
| I can not see why pop3 needs to be so bare-bone that it can not handle
| simple network errors.

For the simple reason that pop3 is a library, not a client.  Libraries
provide functions, clients provide features like error handling.
pop3-movemail is a reference function, something to give real programmers
an example of how to use the library.  I never intended it to be used by
anyone but myself (and it constantly amazes me that so many use it anyway).

I have nothing against anyone writing the World's Greatest POP Client.
Please! if you can write the beast then do so.  But please, do not expect
me to maintain it.  I am not a programmer.  Things like condition-case and
throw/catch give me a headache.  If I understood them better, I probably
would have included something like that at the outset.  I don't.  I didn't.
Deal.
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