pgnus > v0.72 under NT

pgnus > v0.72 under NT

[Alfred J Correira]

Is anyone successfully running a version of pgnus newer than v0.72 with NTEmacs
20.3.1?  I tried v0.77 just now: with my old nnmail-spool-file value
("po:alfred") I get errors just trying to establish a POP connection (port =
"pop" doesn't work for me).  If I switch to the new syntax and explicitly set
values:

((pop :user    "alfred"
      :server  "globeset.com"
      :port    110
      :program "movemail"
      :args    "po:alfred"
))

pgnus successfully initializes (i.e., no errors) but I can't fetch any mail (I
always get "no news is good gnus" ...).  Pgnus v0.72 still works fine for me.

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Re: pgnus > v0.72 under NT

[Brian Gorka]

>>>>> "AJC" == Alfred J Correira <alfred@GlobeSet.com> writes:

    AJC> Is anyone successfully running a version of pgnus newer than
    AJC> v0.72 with NTEmacs 20.3.1?  I tried v0.77 just now: with my
    AJC> old nnmail-spool-file value ("po:alfred") I get errors just
    AJC> trying to establish a POP connection (port = "pop" doesn't
    AJC> work for me).  If I switch to the new syntax and explicitly
    AJC> set values:

    AJC> pgnus successfully initializes (i.e., no errors) but I can't
    AJC> fetch any mail (I always get "no news is good gnus" ...).
    AJC> Pgnus v0.72 still works fine for me.

I'm using .76 without problems you describe.  .77 failed in the exact
same way for me though.  I am not sure if there are more changes to
nnmail-spool-file that happened or not (I haven't investigated and
dropped back to .77 for now). 

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Brian Gorka
gorkab@cyberpass.net

Re: pgnus > v0.72 under NT

[Dmitry Yaitskov]

Brian Gorka <gorkab@cyberpass.net> writes:

> >>>>> "AJC" == Alfred J Correira <alfred@GlobeSet.com> writes:
> 
>     AJC> Is anyone successfully running a version of pgnus newer than
>     AJC> v0.72 with NTEmacs 20.3.1?  I tried v0.77 just now: with my
>     AJC> old nnmail-spool-file value ("po:alfred") I get errors just
>     AJC> trying to establish a POP connection (port = "pop" doesn't
>     AJC> work for me).  If I switch to the new syntax and explicitly
>     AJC> set values:
> 
>     AJC> pgnus successfully initializes (i.e., no errors) but I can't
>     AJC> fetch any mail (I always get "no news is good gnus" ...).
>     AJC> Pgnus v0.72 still works fine for me.
> 
> I'm using .76 without problems you describe.  .77 failed in the exact
> same way for me though.  I am not sure if there are more changes to
> nnmail-spool-file that happened or not (I haven't investigated and
> dropped back to .77 for now). 

The symptoms were a bit different here, also I'm using XEmacs 21.2
(not NT emacs) but I had difficulties running pgnus .77 (it failed to
initialize) till I replaced pop3.el(c) from the pgnus distribution
with a pop3.el (newer) version 2.03 from the mail-lib
packages. FWIW...

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Cheers,
-Dima.

Re: pgnus > v0.72 under NT

[Mansuriatus Shahrir Amir]

>I'm using .76 without problems you describe.  .77 failed in the exact
>same way for me though.  I am not sure if there are more changes to
>nnmail-spool-file that happened or not (I haven't investigated and
>dropped back to .77 for now). 
>
>-- 
>Brian Gorka
>gorkab@cyberpass.net
>

I can confirm that pgnus-0.77 also fails to get mail from the pop server
under XEmacs 21.0.63 and 21.2.10 Beta under NT.

Downgrading to 0.76 get back the pop functionality

Mansuriatus Shahrir Amir
mansur@tm.net.my

pop fetching problems with 0.77 (was Re: pgnus > v0.72 under NT)

[Neil Crellin]

Mansuriatus Shahrir Amir <mansur@tm.net.my> writes:
> >I'm using .76 without problems you describe.  .77 failed in the exact
> >same way for me though.  I am not sure if there are more changes to
> >nnmail-spool-file that happened or not (I haven't investigated and
> >dropped back to .77 for now). 
> >
> >-- 
> >Brian Gorka
> >gorkab@cyberpass.net
> >
> 
> I can confirm that pgnus-0.77 also fails to get mail from the pop server
> under XEmacs 21.0.63 and 21.2.10 Beta under NT.
> 
> Downgrading to 0.76 get back the pop functionality

I reported this to bugs, but there's a problem with pop fetching
generally with 0.77. Towards the end of mail-source-fetch, there's
code like (+ found (funcall function source callback)).

The funcall is now returning nil for pop sources, and (+ 0 nil)
can't eval, so I get the mail downloaded, but the finishing of the
download gets aborted by lisp bombing out here.

This sounds like a different error than the NT folks are seeing tho.

Re: pgnus > v0.72 under NT

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

alfred@GlobeSet.com (Alfred J Correira) writes:

> ((pop :user    "alfred"
>       :server  "globeset.com"
>       :port    110
>       :program "movemail"
>       :args    "po:alfred"
> ))

:args is no longer used -- instead :program takes format-like specs
like %t and %p.  The manual describes this, and then gives an example
using :args.  *sigh*  :-)

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