Re: mail-sources strangeness

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

On 14 Aug 2000, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
>> Hm.  Hmmm...  I looked at the source (cursorily), and it appears
>> that an entry `(pop :host "foo" :user "jrl" :password
>> "verysecret")' means that the symbols `host', `user' and `password'
>> are bound, to "foo", "jrl", and "verysecret", respectively.
> 
> Yes.  But not only those.  For instance, pop mail source functions
> will have the following variables bound:

I see.  Here's the new text for the info file that I've just
commited.  Okay?

/----
| Function Interface
| ..................
| 
|    Some of the above keywords specify a Lisp function to be executed.
| For each keyword `:foo', the Lisp variable `foo' is bound to the value
| of the keyword while the function is executing.  For example, consider
| the following mail-source setting:
| 
|      (setq mail-sources '((pop :user "jrl"
|                                :server "pophost" :function fetchfunc)))
| 
|    While the function `fetchfunc' is executing, the symbol `user' is
| bound to `"jrl"', and the symbol `server' is bound to `"pophost"'.  The
| symbols `port', `password', `program', `prescript', `postscript',
| `function', and `authentication' are also bound (to their default
| values).
| 
|    See above for a list of keywords for each type of mail source.
| 
\----

This comes at the end of the `Mail Source Specifiers' node.

kai
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