Re: POP3 support

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>]

Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> writes:

> I have just sent my finished pop3.el (version 1.0) to Lars for
> integration with Red Gnus.  I think anyone who reads mail from a POP
> server will be quite pleased with the changes an Emacs Lisp
> implementation will bring about.

Just as long as I can still run movemail to talk to my pop server.  I
assume you didn't implement Kerberos authentication (including DES
encryption) in elisp? :-)

I've been thinking about writing a utility program for Kerberos that
emacs could call, so it could have control of the POP session, but
it's pretty low on my priority list right now.

> * Running count of messages retrieved.  Very nice to have when you are
>   pulling 300 messages down over a modem link.  Win32 users rejoice :).

Sounds nice.  Wish I could use it. :-(

> * If I can figure out the backend interface and spooling scheme,
>   messages can be spooled directly into their correct folders, bypassing
>   the crashbox stage (which is pretty much redundant given the nature of
>   POP3 maildrops), dramatically increasing spooling speeds.  Or maybe
>   someone else can cobble this together instead.

I'd love to see that happen.  Especially if it's asynchronous, so info
from nntp and pop servers can be processed in parallel as it comes in.
Might give me incentive to work on the Kerberos hooks...