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Subject: Re: movemail query or POP3 package
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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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