From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31749 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Access mail spool by ssh Date: 11 Jul 2000 17:01:31 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168125 15887 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:42:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBBCCD051E for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:48:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAC03470; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:45:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:44:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA26875 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:44:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 12F94D051E for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:44:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 28253 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2000 01:44:49 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 12 Jul 2000 01:44:49 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA22087; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:44:46 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.ptw.com: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Alexandre Oliva's message of "11 Jul 2000 19:28:37 -0300" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 Original-Lines: 22 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31749 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31749 Alexandre Oliva writes: > On Jul 11, 2000, Harry Putnam wrote: >=20 > > $MOVEMAIL $MAIL $TMP >/dev/null && cat $TMP && rm -f $TMP >=20 > I've done that before, and I was bitten by it. It happened that cat > finished and the file was removed but a significant part of my mailbox > was still in the network buffer, and the connection was broken before > it got to the other end. Ever since, I've been using fetchmail, which > is far slower, but is quite safe. This is a home network where both machines set on the same table so may be a little safer. But can fetchmail be used to fetch a spool file from a remote machine not running a special server? The man page seems to indicate not: The fetchmail program can gather mail from servers sup=AD porting any of the common mail-retrieval protocols: POP2, POP3, IMAP2bis, and IMAP4. It can also use the ESMTP ETRN extension. (The RFCs describing all these protocols are listed at the end of this manual page.)