Re: (0.27) sgnus doesn't even try to connect to server

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

Dan Lewi Harkestad <d.l.harkestad@labmed.uio.no> writes:

> While byte-compiling, I got the error (something like) undefined
> function: open-network-stream. If need be, I'll do it once more and
> provide the exact result.

Odd.  nntp.el has used that function since, like, forever.

> I'm using Emacs 19.29 on OS/2. Oh, please don't make sgnus require
> 19.30 and upwards only. 

September Gnus is definitely for Emacs 19.30 / XEmacs 19.13 / latest
Mule (and upwards) only.  My reasoning for doing something absolutely
fascist as this goes as follows:  I spend a finite time at the
keyboard.  Being compatible with older Emacsen takes time.  So, what
makes more sense -- writing that *fab* new `gnus-frobnoze-world'
command or doing silly things to work around missing features in Emacs
19.22?  I can't do both.  

> While I'm here... I'm completely unsuccessful at getting POP mail to
> work. What's the correct procedure? Currently I'm using poppoll to get
> my email and then read the mbox-file generated with nnml. But I would
> like nnmail to connect to my mailhost (trym.uio.no) and get my email
> from there. Is this possible? The info-file is not very helpful
> here...

You have to set the MAILHOST environment variable to "trym.uio.no"
before starting Emacs, I think.  The September 0.27 "Reading Mail"
node in the manual covers this better than it used to.

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