From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10622 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: using pop3.el instead of Date: 07 Apr 1997 12:38:24 -0400 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150461 25425 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:47:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA13856 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 10:05:09 -0700 Original-Received: from londo.prescienttech.com (londo.prescienttech.com [199.103.216.62]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 18:53:27 +0200 Original-Received: from gkar.asds.com (gkar.asds.com [111.17.19.1]) by londo.prescienttech.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA31560 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:53:24 -0400 Original-Received: from peorth.gweep.net (peorth.asds.com [111.17.16.8]) by gkar.asds.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA18517 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:52:55 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of 07 Apr 1997 09:21:17 +0200 Original-Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.40/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10622 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10622 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "SB" == Steinar Bang writes: SB> Actually, it asks for the password every time it wants to do a pop SB> retrieval. That is intentional. pop3 will not "cache" passwords because it is a security hole. You can "cache" it in pop3-password or nnmail-pop-password. However, if you have more than one POP mailbox this will fail because both Gnus and pop3 can only "remember" one password. SB> Also, something in the combination SB> UoW POP3 server (from the 4.1 BETA imap distribution), Xemacs UoW's POP3 server is broken; at a guess it strips trailing newlines from messages when it removes the envelope sender. There is a working workaround for this in Gnus 5.4.41 (the current one apparantly does not work). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM0ki9Z6VRH7BJMxHAQG8vQP8DJlQS9G3vVRh9KX6ccd5aheLKk50GRse +23dp3+f35xlrWONC7zqnnYIgcCKwD5uGr68xEnSjAko70cs8Pv8fH6x1KWmvQat KDKUtuvWWsW73uUerlSYTYkVG/l5TMWoe5ex0Ijp+Z3oSUBhQhWswWH/7eFlBQHI +lghz1v1r5s= =74Yn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Rat \ Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ \