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>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:

>>>>> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>:
>>>>> "SB" == Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

SB> Neither the Gnus manual, nor the Gnus FAQ, is very helpful on how to
SB> go about using pop3.el instead of movemail.

>> (setq nnmail-movemail-program 'nnmail-pop3-movemail)

>> That's it.  Everything should just work at that point if you are
>> properly set up to get mail from a POP maildrop.

> Please disregard an earlier error report on this!

> It works fine on GNU Emacs 19.34, Gnus 5.4.25, except that my
> current variable settings asks me for my password twice (once for
> movemail presumably, and once for pop3.  Any tips as to how to get
> rid of one of them?).

Actually, it asks for the password every time it wants to do a pop
retrieval. 

Also, something in the combination
	UoW POP3 server (from the 4.1 BETA imap distribution), Xemacs
        19.15, Gnus 5.4 (the one with xemacs) and pop3.el for mail
        retrival 
ended up concatenating incoming messages together into one message (in
"mbox" format... well, they were separated by "From" lines...).

Since I've spent a good part of this morning manually splitting
messages and respooling them, I'm now back in GNU Emacs 19.34, Gnus
5.4.25, POP with movemail, and reluctant to experiment to find out
what the culprit actually is.


- Steinar