Re: POP3 and SMTP...

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Paul Franklin <paul@cs.washington.edu> writes:

>  > I've got a hack similar to Rich Pieri's nnmail-pop3-movemail to
>  > get pop3-movemail working with nnmail.  The problem is that my
>  > spool is set up like this:
>  > (setq nnmail-spool-file
>  >       '("/var/mail/dhunter" "po:atlserver"))
>  > Nnmail tries to use pop3-movemail to do the standard mail as
>  > well, of course.  My cursory glance at the code suggests that a
>  > fair bit of nnmail.el would have to be rewritten to support
>  > different movemails for different spools.  Could this go on the
>  > requested feature list ?
> 
> If Lars doesn't do this, I'm sure someone else (maybe me) will; I
> sketched one idea for doing this a while back which basically creates
> mail spool backends, and I'm not the only one to mutter about doing
> similar changes in the next development cycle.

I definitely will be writing something like this for Quassia Gnus
(unless someone writes it before I get around to it).

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen