From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32143 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: 13 Aug 2000 21:34:54 +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 1035168462 18058 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:47:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:47:42 +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 8A8BBD051E for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:36:53 -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 OAC10960; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:36:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:34:42 -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 OAA09208 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:34:32 -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 E03FDD051E for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:34:55 -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 VAA11558 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:34:55 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id VAA19103; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:34:55 +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 VAA07839; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:34:54 +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 "13 Aug 2000 20:42:20 +0200" Original-Lines: 28 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:32143 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32143 On 13 Aug 2000, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >=20 >> `mail-sources' uses pop3-movemail if nothing is specified, right? >=20 >=20 >> 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. >=20 > 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 --=20 I like BOTH kinds of music.