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From: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>
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Subject: Re: Adding function to pop3.el, and calling a backend from elsewhere
Date: 04 Apr 1997 18:06:45 -0500
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>>>>> "SB" == Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

SB> Fetching mail with POP, but "biffing" it with
SB> IMAP... kinda... *special*, innit...? :-)

Heh ;).

If all you want to do is a basic biff (mail count), I suggest ensuring that
you are using APOP for authentication, then write a little function that
opens the server, does a pop3-stat, closes the server, and returns the
message count returned by pop3-stat.  Hacking into the display-time
functions is probably what you want to do.

More complex stuff requires a more complex interface... one that I think is
trivial with IMAP but hideously complex with POP.  Right tool for the job
and all that.

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