Re: mail-sources strangeness

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> `mail-sources' uses pop3-movemail if nothing is specified, right?

Well, no.  :-) If nothing is specified, it kinda calls another
function (well, progn, but in Emacs Lisp there's not much of a
difference) which then calls pop3-movemail.

> So
> the following two behave the same, right?
> 
> (setq mail-sources '((pop :user "foo" :server "bar"))
> (setq mail-sources '((pop :user "foo" :server "bar" :function pop3-movemail))
> 
> Wrong.

Yup. 

> I think there should be a specified protocol for passing the necessary
> information to the function: user name, host name, password, port,
> authentication scheme.  It's not clear to me how a function is
> supposed to get at these values, anyway.  (Well, there is
> `mail-source-bind' which might do this, but it's not easy to
> understand what that does...  Hm.  It appears to provide defaults for
> the colon keywords.)

Yup.

> Whichever scheme is chosen, it should be documented, I think.  And
> there should be a function which can be put in like `:function foo'
> such that the default behavior is chosen.

Well, OK, but the function will just look like the progn there, with a
defun before it.  Emacs Lisp has nice dynamic variables, so they
should be used.  :-)

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