From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9807 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Simms Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: pop mailboxes Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:00:37 -0800 Sender: dsimms@ba.alink.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149776 20687 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:36:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no 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 PAA13304 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:24:44 -0800 Original-Received: from alink.net (ns.alink.net [207.135.127.66]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 00:01:29 +0100 Original-Received: from yoyo.alink.net (dsimms@ba.alink.net [207.135.127.69]) by alink.net (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA05925; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:01:27 -0800 Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 04 Feb 1997 20:41:00 +0100 Original-Lines: 57 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.82/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9807 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9807 >>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: LMI> I don't see why ange-ftp should meddle with file names that LMI> start with "po:". Well it's *almost* how you specify remote files, ie /host:file (or /user@host:file), no? LMI> What effects are you seeing? ange-ftp tries to open an ftp session to "po", which is non-existant, (and even if it was, wouldn't have my mail on it :) Here's a trace from the call in question. (And before you freak out, the function I use for nnmail-movemail-program does grok the ":" delimited pop maildrop.) ;Signaling: (ftp-error "FTP Error: OPEN request failed: ftp: po: unknown host") ; signal(ftp-error ("FTP Error: OPEN request failed: ftp: po: unknown host")) ; ange-ftp-error("po" "dsimms" "OPEN request failed: ftp: po: unknown host") ; ange-ftp-normal-login("po" "dsimms" "" "" #) ; ange-ftp-get-process("po" "dsimms") ; ange-ftp-host-type("po" "dsimms") ; ange-ftp-expand-dir("po" "dsimms" "~") ; ange-ftp-canonize-filename("/po:pop.alink.net:110:apop:n:dsimms%alink.net:*") ; ange-ftp-expand-file-name("/po:pop.alink.net:110:apop:n:dsimms%alink.net:*" nil) ; apply(ange-ftp-expand-file-name ("/po:pop.alink.net:110:apop:n:dsimms%alink.net:*" nil)) ; ange-ftp-hook-function(expand-file-name "/po:pop.alink.net:110:apop:n:dsimms%alink.net:*" nil) ; expand-file-name("/po:pop.alink.net:110:apop:n:dsimms%alink.net:*") ; ange-ftp-file-directory-p("/po:pop.alink.net:110:apop:n:dsimms%alink.net:*") ; apply(ange-ftp-file-directory-p "/po:pop.alink.net:110:apop:n:dsimms%alink.net:*") ; ange-ftp-hook-function(file-directory-p "/po:pop.alink.net:110:apop:n:dsimms%alink.net:*") ; file-directory-p("po:pop.alink.net:110:apop:n:dsimms%alink.net:*") ; #[(file) "À !ƒ\n ; mapcar(#[(file) "À !ƒ\n ; nnmail-get-spool-files(nil) ; nnmail-get-new-mail(nnmh nil "~/Mail/" nil) ; nnmh-request-scan(nil "") ; gnus-request-scan(nil (nnmh "")) ; gnus-read-active-file() ; gnus-group-get-new-news(nil) ;* call-interactively(gnus-group-get-new-news) Like I said, I have no real idea why file-directory-p is hooked differently by ange-ftp post-startup. LMI> If you have the mail backend as a secondary server, `F' will LMI> subscribe you to all new groups. coolness. Well, hopefully I won't ever have to switch to gnus again, y'know? :) -- Daniel Simms "The best of all ways to lengthen our days dsimms@dsimms.com is to steal a few hours from the night." (415) 269-7891 -Thomas Moore