From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11885 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: *POP* goes the mail.. Date: 14 Aug 1997 10:55:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151521 566 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:05:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA11473 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:25:13 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA15687 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:20:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from peoria.mt.cs.cmu.edu (PEORIA.MT.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.110.42]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:55:41 +0200 Original-Received: by peoria.mt.cs.cmu.edu (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA22584; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:55:39 -0400 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "14 Aug 1997 12:01:35 +0200" Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.59/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11885 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11885 Steinar Bang writes: > >>>>> Andy Eskilsson : > > > UUh our sysadms want us to go over to pop.. whats the status for > > pop-support in gnus.. I just want to collect them to my nnml-backend. > > I've had varying success with using movemail compiled with POP. It > doesn't work on Xemacs 19.15, it normally works on GNU emacs 19.34, on > Solaris 2.5 machine (didn't work on Ultrix 4.4), but not on all > Solaris machines, and not against all servers, and since I hacked > myself away from using POP, I haven't gotten 'round to investigating. I have also had varying success with movemail. A lot depends on whether the correct movemail (emacs's or netscape's) is used, and whether that movemail was compiled with pop support. I found that using pop3.el worked more consistantly, and gave feedback as to what was happening. (setq nnmail-movemail-program 'nnmail-pop3-movemail) (setq pop3-mailhost "nl.cs.cmu.edu") (setq nnmail-spool-file '("po:md5i")) (setq pop3-password-required t) (setq pop3-password "xxxxxxxx") -- Michael Duggan Support the anti-Spam amendment (md5i@cs.cmu.edu) Join at