From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33650 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vladimir Volovich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: 8bit mails via POP mail-source Date: 14 Dec 2000 10:42:55 +0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <5b66knc4bi.fsf@brandy.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169716 26219 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:08:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:08:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E96DD049A for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:49:46 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB06581; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 02:49:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 14 Dec 2000 02:49:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA06031 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 02:49:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from relay2.vsu.ru (mail.vsu.ru [62.76.169.17]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0CFD049A for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:49:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by relay2.vsu.ru (Postfix, from userid 5) id 69ACF1A44; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:45:39 +0300 (MSK) Original-Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA20695; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:42:56 +0300 X-Authentication-Warning: vvv.vsu.ru: vvv set sender to vvv@vvv.vsu.ru using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33650 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33650 "Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat writes: [ btw, i "suffer" from this bug in pop3.el for several years now... i asked to fix it, but you answered as as you did in your previous mail ] Rat> * ShengHuo ZHU on Wed, 13 Dec 2000 | Try Rat> (setq pop3-movemail-file-coding-system 'binary). Rat> /me checks stuff... Well, that is dumb. There shouldn't be a Rat> coding system set in the movemail function. That gets handled Rat> by the read/write coding system settings in pop3-open-server, Rat> which hard-sets it to 'binary which is the only appropriate Rat> setting for a raw data stream. By no means should it be Rat> settable by the user because anything other than 'binary will Rat> break. Please file a bug report. well... why ShengHuo or you should file a bug report to anyone? isn't pop3.el part of gnus?! just fix the bug as you want, and the problem is over! Rat> FWIW, the version of pop3.el that ships with XEmacs 21 is not Rat> broken in this manner. Nor is the real 1.3s version (the FSF Rat> has failed to increment version numbers with the changes they Rat> have made). could you please merge your latest version into gnus? Best regards, -- Vladimir.