From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10505 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Adding function to pop3.el, and calling a backend from elsewhere Date: 03 Apr 1997 21:42:15 +0200 Sender: grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.100) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150365 24791 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:46:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA03373 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:01:30 -0800 Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 21:42:22 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 5153 invoked by uid 504); 3 Apr 1997 19:39:50 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5150 invoked from network); 3 Apr 1997 19:39:50 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 3 Apr 1997 19:39:49 -0000 Original-Received: from naunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (naunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.111]) by waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id UAA14727; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:42:17 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by naunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id VAA22196; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 21:42:16 +0200 Original-To: Steinar Bang In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of 03 Apr 1997 20:47:53 +0200 Original-Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.39/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10505 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10505 >>>>> Steinar Bang writes: Steinar> iii. is pop3.el a regular back end? Why, and how, use it, rather Steinar> than POP with movemail (which is what I do today, appearently) IIRC, pop3.el was intended to be a replacement for movemail, similar to smtpmail.el being a replacement for sendmail, and for the same reasons: on some systems, movemail may not exist. I might be wrong, though, I've just been coding *very* stupid stuff for the past two hours. Don't you hate these the-code-is-almost-but- not-exactly-the-same-so-cut-and-paste-doesn't-work things, too? Oh the joys of object-orientation: you get less code reuse. Grmpf. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)