Re: pop3.el broken

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> Do you have any doubts?

Good analysis.

> If none, pop3.el can be modified something like follows.  It can be
> simplified if we don't have to handle to encode a password string.
>
>
> (defvar pop3-apop-passwd-coding-system nil
>   "*Coding system used to encode a non-ascii password for APOP.")

Can't we make it default to UTF-8, if available?

  (if (or (and (fboundp 'find-coding-system) (find-coding-system 'utf-8))
	  (and (fboundp 'coding-system-p) (coding-system-p 'utf-8)))
      'utf-8)

> (defmacro pop3-make-apop-auth (password)

I can't say that I tried all possible cases (or even any of them), but
this looks like the right approach.

Perhaps we can remove the pop3-md5-program stuff and use md5.el as
shipped with Gnus, but this isn't important. I think "md5sum" is more
common than "md5" (at least my redhat machine doesn't have md5).