Re: Hmm.. pop in gnus?

[Albrecht Kadlec <albrecht@auto.tuwien.ac.at>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> 
> > (1) Compile movemail with POP support (Emacs configuration option
> >     --with-pop or something).
> 
> You can't do it in XEmacs, and the original poster uses XEmacs.
> Someone should update XEmacs movemail.c.
> 
> > I use this, and it works.  There's also pop3.el (comes with Gnus), but
> > I don't know how to use it.
> 
> pop3.el should work with XEmacs, but I don't know if anyone was brave
> enough to actually try it.
> 

thanks for the warnings. 
I tried it, before I read this, and I use it now, as it seems to work. :

Problems, I had:

The pop support is not at all well documented:

   I had to guess my setting:
      pop3-mailhost "auto.auto.tuwien.ac.at."
      nnmail-movemail-program 'nnmail-pop3-movemail
      nnmail-spool-file "po:albrecht"	; nil: don't ever read mail
;      nnmail-pop-password-required t

  Note that I have to leave nnmail-pop-password-required nil, or
  I'd otherwise be queried twice for the password since 
  pop3-password-required's value is t.

  Especially the pop3-mailhost setting was not easy to find.

  I tried 
      nnmail-movemail-program "movemail"
  but it tried to open the file /usr/spool/mail/po:albrecht :-)
  I guess that's a bug in the wrapper to the movemail program.
  (nnmail-spool-file is appended to rmail-spool-directory, before the
  check for "po:")

could someone add this (and the external-movemail description) to the
doc's ? 

albrecht