Re: webmail and slashdot articles

Re: webmail and slashdot articles

[Bill White]

On Wed Nov 29 2000 at 13:08, Colin Walters <walters+n@cis.ohio-state.edu> said:

    >> I would like to find a way to get my mail off my hotmail
    >> account as well as my procmail directory and also the slashdot
    >> news all displayed in my Group list, but I still don't
    >> understand how to deal with all those groups.

    cw> Well, I don't know much about the hotmail and slashdot
    cw> backends, but you should at least be able to use the `webmail'
    cw> mail source to get mail from hotmail.  Since mail-sources is a
    cw> list, just add it to the list.  The node "Slashdot" in the
    cw> manual seems to describe how to get things set up for
    cw> slashdot.

I tried using webmail to get mail from hotmail and my-deja accounts,
but their html changed on a regular schedule, it seemed, and kept
breaking webmail.  ShengHuo Zhu suggested using a yahoo pop account,
which has worked wonderfully well.

,----[ ~/.gnus ]
| (setq mail-sources
|       '((file :path "/var/spool/mail/billw")
|         (pop :server "pop.mail.yahoo.com" 
|              :user "myusername" 
|              :password "mypassword" 
|              :dontexpunge nil)))
`----

If you're behind a firewall, you'll need zsh's firewall.el:

<url:http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/200010/msg00164.html>
<url:http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/200010/msg00165.html>
<url:http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/200010/msg00166.html>

,----[ ~/.gnus ]
| ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
| ;;
| ;; setup zsh's firewall.el
| 
| (add-to-list 'load-path "/mnt/disk2/billw/emacs/emacs-lisp/shenghuo-zhu")
| (require 'firewall)
| 
| ; First, you need setup 
| (setq firewall-gateway-host "proxy")
| (setq firewall-gateway-port 8080)
| (ad-activate 'open-network-stream)
| ;;; 4. http 
| (setq firewall-gateway-function-list 
|  '(firewall-gateway-send-connect
|    firewall-gateway-wait-http))
| 
| (defun firewall-gateway-wait-http (proc host service)
|   (firewall-wait-for-string "HTTP.* 200 .*\r*\n\r*\n" proc)
|   (delete-region (point-min) (point))
|   nil)
`----

Cheers -

bw
-- 
Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wri.com/billw