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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: mail-sources: one server, two mailboxes ?
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 12:34:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafg05pj8av.fsf@INBOX.auto.gnus.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hhr8pc5mu2.fsf@nightshade.la.mastaler.com> ("Jason R. Mastaler"'s message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:07:17 -0700")

"Jason R. Mastaler" <jason-dated-1010444838.b536a8@mastaler.com> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Can't you just put two pop specs in `mail-sources'?  I don't think
>> that should be problematic...
>
> Well again, I'm only fetching from one pop server, not two.  Is there
> a way to specify which mailbox to pop from?

The POP standard only allows one mailbox per user.  There are
nonstandard extensions, but I guess Gnus (or pop3.el) does not
support them.

You could set up an IMAP server on the remote host.  The `imap'
mail-sources specifier allows you to specify a mailbox.

kai
-- 
Simplification good!  Oversimplification bad!  (Larry Wall)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-02 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-30  4:43 Jason R. Mastaler
2001-12-30  7:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-12-30 23:07   ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-12-30 23:18     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-12-31  1:57       ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-12-31  2:32         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-12-31  8:29           ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-12-31  8:35             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-12-31 19:52               ` Jason R. Mastaler
2002-01-02 11:34     ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2002-01-07  3:01       ` Jason R. Mastaler
2002-01-07  8:43         ` Simon Josefsson

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