POP? Goes the weasel

POP? Goes the weasel

[David A. Cobb]

I'm finding the Gnus.info confusing.  My primary mail is my ISP's POP3
service.  Do I need some external program(s) to fetch from POP3 into my
localhost spool?

[Running Xemacs--i686-pc-Cygwin--21.1.13 on a Win98se+Cygwin machine]

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Re: POP? Goes the weasel

[Kai Großjohann]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, David A. Cobb wrote:

> I'm finding the Gnus.info confusing.  My primary mail is my ISP's
> POP3 service.  Do I need some external program(s) to fetch from POP3
> into my localhost spool?

No, if you do

(require 'mail-source)
(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(pop :server "pop.server" :user "username"))

then Gnus uses pop3.el which enables Emacs to speak POP3 to a server
right from Lisp.  No external programs required, just pop3.el, and
that comes with Gnus.

kai
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Re: POP? Goes the weasel

[Nick Papadonis]

#1)
Standalone gnus suck from pop3.
(setq mail-sources
        '((pop :user "username"
               :server "pop3.mailserver.com"
               :password "evil")))
#2)
You can use fetchmail.

#3) 
You can use fetchmail and procmail to split your incoming mail.
I think this is the best way.  Gnus will suck you mail in from files.

Good luck.

- Nick

"David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@home.com> writes:

> I'm finding the Gnus.info confusing.  My primary mail is my ISP's POP3
> service.  Do I need some external program(s) to fetch from POP3 into my
> localhost spool?
> 
> [Running Xemacs--i686-pc-Cygwin--21.1.13 on a Win98se+Cygwin machine]
> 
> --
> David A. Cobb, The Superbiskit !
> Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate, All around nice guy.
> Get my PGP key at
> :<http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=superbiskit>
> Fingerprint=0x{6E3E DB8C 2E8C 4248 62B2  FE29 08EE CF0A 3629 E954}
> "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner."
> --The Way of a Pilgrim, R. M. French [tr.]
> <---.----!----.----!----.----!----.----!----.----!----.----!----.---->
> 

-- 
- Nick