From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32189 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mail-sources strangeness Date: 14 Aug 2000 23:05:49 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168500 18344 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:48:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:48:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291DAD051E for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:06:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAC24377; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:06:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:05:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA23481 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:05:23 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB787D051E for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:05:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id XAA05463 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:05:50 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id XAA05968; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:05:49 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id XAA09866; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:05:49 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "14 Aug 2000 19:11:04 +0200" Original-Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.6 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32189 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32189 On 14 Aug 2000, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >=20 >> 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. >=20 > 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 | .................. |=20 | 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: |=20 | (setq mail-sources '((pop :user "jrl" | :server "pophost" :function fetchfunc))) |=20 | 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). |=20 | See above for a list of keywords for each type of mail source. |=20 \---- This comes at the end of the `Mail Source Specifiers' node. kai --=20 I like BOTH kinds of music.