Re: pop3-movemail trouble

["Erik Østlyngen" <eriko@ifbt.ntnu.no>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> * "Erik Østlyngen" <eriko@ifbt.ntnu.no>  on Wed, 16 Jun 1999
> |   +OK POP3 dj.stud.ntnu.no proxy server v1.0 ready.
> |   -ERR Command line too long.
> |   -ERR Null command.
> 
> That... is strange.  'Command line too long' is not a valid error in any
> event as POP requires that excess gubbage be ignored.  I cannot recreate
> the error manually, which makes it difficult to track down what is causing
> the problem.  pGnus sends nothing to the POP server; that traffic is
> handled entirely by pop3.el.  It sends nothing other than what you are
> typing.  It is a very simple, very literal, brute-force library.

I'm sorry. I thought pop3.el was part of pGnus.

> |  (setq nnmail-spool-file '(
> 
> This variable's name has changed to mail-sources.  What does 'C-h v' tell
> you about mail-sources or nnmail-spool-file?

mail-sources is nil

nnmail-spool-file is:
((pop :user "erikoest" 
      :server "pop.stud.ntnu.no" 
      :password "SecretWord" ))

I tried to change my .emacs to use mail-sources instead of
nnmail-spool-file. 

nnmail-spool-file is now ((file))

mail-sources is:
((pop :user "erikoest"
      :server "pop.stud.ntnu.no"
      :password "SecretWord" ))

But the response is the same. I still get the "Command line too long"
error. I think I will see if the system administrator here knows what
this error message means.

-Erik Østlyngen