Re: pop3+ssl

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <rzqbr0aqmos.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> Dave Love wrote:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> In pop3-open-server, for what purpose is `while' used?  If it is
>> intended to run cyclically, it seems to lack some conditions or
>> other.

> `delete-region' returns nil, but I guess for clarity it should be
> wrapped in (progn ... nil).

A certain version of pop3.el does the following:

	(while (and (memq (process-status process) '(open run))
		    (goto-char (point-max))
		    (forward-line -1)
		    (not (looking-at "+OK")))
	  (accept-process-output process TIMEOUT)
	  (sit-for 1))

Where `TIMEOUT' is 1.0 for "windows-nt\\|os/2\\|emx\\|cygwin",
0.1 for others by default.  I'm not sure but it might have been
necessary for the slow connection.

>> I cannot try it practically since I have no pop3 server which
>> supports ssl, though.