* That Pringles thing
@ 1999-05-13 11:13 Thomas Skogestad
1999-05-13 12:31 ` John Saylor
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From: Thomas Skogestad @ 1999-05-13 11:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
I want to POP! But I can't even start.
I tried updrading to a newer pgnus -- 0.83 (I also tried 0.84, same
things happen.)
But, alas, my POP mail was not read.
So I poked around in the manual, and I found this:
(setq mail-sources
'((file :path "/var/spool/mail/user-name")
(pop :server "pop3.mail.server"
:user "user-name"
:port "pop3"
:password "secret")))
So I tried modifying the example values... But still, nothing
happens. Gnus is _not_ getting any mail.
And if I don't remove
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
'((nnml "private")))
I get the following error message: «Error, unknown file format! (Possibly
corrupted.)
And also: old mail is not displayed.
If I try to enter a mail group, I just get «Trying to request a method
that doesn't exist».
--
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http://home.att.net/~krosnoff/kr00041.htm
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* Re: That Pringles thing
1999-05-13 11:13 That Pringles thing Thomas Skogestad
@ 1999-05-13 12:31 ` John Saylor
1999-05-13 13:55 ` Thomas Skogestad
1999-05-13 14:56 ` Stainless Steel Rat
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From: John Saylor @ 1999-05-13 12:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi
>>>>> "TS" == Thomas Skogestad <tskogest@jusstud.uio.no> writes:
TS> I want to POP! But I can't even start. I tried updrading to a
TS> newer pgnus -- 0.83 (I also tried 0.84, same things happen.)
Well IMAP is much better anyway [although configuring nnimap is no walk
in the park either].
But I had a similar problem. Then I RTFM and saw this:
[excerpted]
`pop'
Get mail from a POP server.
Keywords:
`:program'
The program to use to fetch mail from the POP server. This
is should be a `format'-like string. Here's an example:
fetchmail %u@%s -P %p %t
The valid format specifier characters are:
`t'
The name of the file the mail is to be moved to. This
must always be included in this string.
`s'
The name of the server.
`P'
The port number of the server.
`u'
The user name to use.
`p'
The password to use.
The values used for these specs are taken from the values you
give the corresponding keywords.
`:function'
The function to use to fetch mail from the POP server. The
function is called with one parameter--the name of the file
where the mail should be moved to.
[and this is the important part]
If the `:program' and `:function' keywords aren't specified,
`pop3-movemail' will be used.
So, my guess is that these two parameters aren't configured
correctly. I ended up bailing on the movemail supplied with [x]emacs
and went to fetchmail and dumped everything in my local spool and am
happy.
Maybe that will work for you too.
--
\js
"It's ten o'clock... Do you know where your AI programs are?" -- Peter Oakley
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* Re: That Pringles thing
1999-05-13 12:31 ` John Saylor
@ 1999-05-13 13:55 ` Thomas Skogestad
1999-05-13 14:56 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Skogestad @ 1999-05-13 13:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
* John Saylor
| If the `:program' and `:function' keywords aren't specified,
| `pop3-movemail' will be used.
|
|
| So, my guess is that these two parameters aren't configured
| correctly.
Doesn't change anything, no matter what I say. In fact, I can set any
:variable to anything, :server could be foo.bar and Gnus won't balk at
it. Under 0.72 I get a buffer called trace of POP session to <POP
server> which contains things such as
+OK QPOP (version 2.53-krb-IV) at <POP server> starting.
<27530.926602997@munkholm>
+OK Password required for <user>.
+OK <user> has 1 message (1643 octets).
+OK 1 1643
+OK 1643 octets
..
+OK Message 1 has been deleted.
+OK Pop server at munkholm signing off.
There is nothing like this in the newer pgnusia.
--
thomas.skogestad@jusstud.uio.no
http://home.att.net/~krosnoff/kr00041.htm
http://www.opaldata.com/the_end/index.html
Resemblance to a person with a real life is purely coincidental
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* Re: That Pringles thing
1999-05-13 12:31 ` John Saylor
1999-05-13 13:55 ` Thomas Skogestad
@ 1999-05-13 14:56 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stainless Steel Rat @ 1999-05-13 14:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
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* John Saylor <jsaylor@mediaone.net> on Thu, 13 May 1999
| Well IMAP is much better anyway [although configuring nnimap is no walk
| in the park either].
IMAP is not "better" than POP; it is different.
Don't mind me. I just hate it when people claim that because POP cannot do
something they think it is a failing when in fact POP does exactly what it
was designed to do.
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