On Thu, Oct 14 2004, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>> pop3.el seems to be separate from the rest of Gnus, so I'm not sure if
>> I should add netrc.el (authinfo) support to it - then pop3.el would
>> also depend on gnus-encrypt.el.  Please advise.
>
> There are many incompatible forks of pop3.el, the copy in Gnus CVS
> used to be one of them.  I see now that the copies in Gnus CVS and
> Emacs CVS are in sync.  I'm not sure how that happened, but it is a
> good thing.

I've merged the changes from Emacs to Gnus initially and Miles keeps
them in sync now.  The most important thing was
`pop3-leave-mail-on-server'.  I'm not sure if this feature (introduced
in Emacs) was a good idea in the first place (and I don't know if it
works reliably [1]).  But if upgrading from Gnus 5.9 to 5.11 would
suddenly delete the mails on the server after pop (when
`pop3-leave-mail-on-server' is ignored as in Gnus 5.10.6), people
won't be happy ("Gnus deleted all my mail!!!1").

> So perhaps we can make this one the canonical copy, and add new
> features to it.  I'd say go ahead.

Dave Love pointed out that `pop3.el' could be used outside Gnus and
suggested to remove the nn-whatever dependencies.  If we think that
this is a valuable goal, we should avoid adding further dependencies.

,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/3974 ]
| pop3.el shouldn't use nnheader-accept-process-output, so it can be
| used outside Gnus.
`----

Bye, Reiner.

[1] I think I'll add a warning, see the attached patch.
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