movemail query or POP3 package

movemail query or POP3 package

[d. hall]

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I know emacs has movemail for this capibility, but does movemail support
the likelihood that the POP3 server requires user-authentication?  So far
I've been using a start-process wrapper around popclient to draw off my
email from the popserver.  Due to lack of disk space in which I can
recompile emacs with.  If movemail doesn't support user-auth, I'm planning
on writing a POP3 tcp set of package to draw the email off a server.
Either that or patch movemail to enable user-auth, I'm not sure which
easier, already implemented, soon-to-be-implemented...  Also anyone know
the RFC for POP3?

(yes, I guess I'm really am that bored... I took a spill down the stairs
today/yesterday and I'm trying to figure out how to pass the time while I'm
recovering before I can get back to work).

d.
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Re: movemail query or POP3 package

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

dhall@illusion.apk.net (d. hall) writes:

> I know emacs has movemail for this capibility, but does movemail support
> the likelihood that the POP3 server requires user-authentication?

Yes, but no.

`pop_open' in pop.c has this definition:

popserver pop_open (host, username, password, flags)

So it does allow specifying password and stuff.  However, this
function is called from `movemail' in movemail.c thusly:

  server = pop_open (0, user, 0, POP_NO_GETPASS);

So one can't specify that `movemail' should prompt for a password when
fetching mail from the POP server.  This seems like a bug to me, so
I'd suggest someone fixing this and mailing the fix off to Stallman. 

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