From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9779 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Simms Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: pop mailboxes Date: 03 Feb 1997 15:32:58 -0800 Sender: dsimms@ba.alink.net Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149750 20471 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:35:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:35:50 +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 PAA10983 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 15:45:14 -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 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 00:33:57 +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 PAA26932 for ding@ifi.uio.no; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 15:33:55 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 35 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.82/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9779 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9779 hi all, Well, I (finally!) started using gnus for email over the weekend and I have some problems, of course. Whee! Pop mail spool files, which begin with "^po:", get caught by ange-ftp after the first *get-new-news. It's only after the first fetching since nnmail-get-new-mail loads ange-ftp's password reading function halfway through the first pass. I couldn't see how to cleanly fix this, so I tried forcing ange-ftp to unload at the end of fetching mail, but that didn't really work since ange-ftp has all sorts of other non-gnus functions hooked from hell to breakfast. I ended up tweaking nnmail to also look for "^po;" and used that instead of "po:". While respooling old mail, I noticed that splitting into a non-existant group isn't so useful. Is there some way to get gnus to auto-create non-existant groups? I check mail from several different pop mailboxes, and wrapped pop3-movemail so that I could explicitly specify maildrop, host, port, authentication scheme, and password in the spool file variable, more like vm does. And then I was bored so I added some code to save the passwords on sucessful authorization. (I also added some flags to allow leaving mail on the server, which isn't all that useful except for some testing, since I haven't added the UIDL matching code yet.) Does anybody want this? Richard, Lars? Anyway, thanks again to everybody who makes gnus work. -- Daniel Simms "You don't have to pretend to be interested in dsimms@alink.net me you know. I know I'm only a menial robot." (408) 720-6161 -- Marvin, _HhGttG_