pop3-movemail returns always nil on Emacs 20.2

pop3-movemail returns always nil on Emacs 20.2

[Tatsuya Ichikawa]

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  On Emacs 20.2 , pop3-movemail() returns always nil.
  So , mail-source-password-cache cleared every new mail/news fetch
  session.

  At the last part of pop3-movemail() , there is

    (kill-buffer crashbuf)
    )
   )

  So , pop3-movemail() returns always nil.

  Please modify pop3.el as following.


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*** pop3.el.orig	Tue Feb 02 11:19:48 1999
--- pop3.el	Tue Feb 02 11:19:28 1999
***************
*** 104,110 ****
      (pop3-quit process)
      (kill-buffer crashbuf)
      )
!   )
  
  (defun pop3-open-server (mailhost port)
    "Open TCP connection to MAILHOST.
--- 104,110 ----
      (pop3-quit process)
      (kill-buffer crashbuf)
      )
!   t)
  
  (defun pop3-open-server (mailhost port)
    "Open TCP connection to MAILHOST.

-- 
  Tatsuya Ichikawa <t-ichi@po.shiojiri.ne.jp>

Re: pop3-movemail returns always nil on Emacs 20.2

[Tatsuya Ichikawa]

>>>>> In <m31zk9a0hb.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
>>>>>  Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> wrote:
Rat> If returning t or nil is important, then your patch is just as bad
Rat> as the extant code, I think.

  I know - That is very "easygoing" answer.
  But I don't know better answer to solv this problem.

Rat> Besides, pop3-movemail is a reference.  The code sucks.  It was
Rat> never intended for general use.  Please, write a better movemail
Rat> function and donate it to the FSF.  Or use epop3mail (which is more
Rat> or less exactly that).

  Where do I get epop3mail??
  Is that another POP3 library written in Emacs Lisp??

-- 
  Tatsuya Ichikawa <t-ichi@po.shiojiri.ne.jp>