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I'm also a happy user of movemail compiled with POP.

Movemail can perform various forms of automatic authentication (APOP
(similar to rsh/rlogin), KPOP (Kerberos)), depending on what
compile-time options are used.  If I didn't want this support, I'd
probably use pop3-movemail.

APOP is non-trivial though since the APOP code disappeared from the
FSF distribution about Emacs 19.29, and even if you resurrect the
required code, it needs to be installed setuid root.  But I made the
changes locally and I'm reasonably happy with it.

--Paul

>>>>> Kai Grossjohann writes:

 > One uses POP as a spool file specification.  Here's how:

 > (1) Compile movemail with POP support (Emacs configuration option
 >     --with-pop or something).

 > (2) Set the environment variable MAILHOST to where the POP server is.

 > (3) Use the following as nnmail-spool-file: "po:foo" where "foo" is
 >     your POP account.

 > I use this, and it works.  There's also pop3.el (comes with Gnus), but
 > I don't know how to use it.