Re: mail-sources strangeness

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

On 13 Aug 2000, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
>> `mail-sources' uses pop3-movemail if nothing is specified, right?
> 
> 
>> Whichever scheme is chosen, it should be documented, I think.  And
>> there should be a function which can be put in like `:function foo'
>> such that the default behavior is chosen.
> 
> Well, OK, but the function will just look like the progn there, with
> a defun before it.  Emacs Lisp has nice dynamic variables, so they
> should be used.  :-)

I think I needed many words to say the following:

When I use the :function keyword inside a `pop' mail source, how does
the function know about the user name, host name, and so on?

In other words:

Nowhere in the node `Mail Source Specifiers' it is documented how such
a function knows about the user name and host name and so on.

kai
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