Re: Hmm.. pop in gnus?

[Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@PrescientTech.com>]

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>>>>> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <che@zarf-mouse.student.imsa.edu> writes:

BG> How does one go about using pop as a select method for a group?

One does not, nor will one ever.  POP is geared towards one purpose:
transferring mail from a remote server to one's local machine.  It does
this quite well.  But it is a lousy way remotely store and access mail; it
was never intended to be used for this purpose.  POP simply is not IMAP.
Attempting to make POP work like IMAP is doomed to failure; the protocol
was never intended to be used in that fashion.

BG> Currently, I'm just using a shell-command to run popclient to fetch my
BG> mail, but certainly there's a Better Way to Do It? *grin*

One could point the nnmail-movemail-program at the pop3-movemail function
and do the transfer with Lisp functions rather than an external program.
But no, pop3.el will never be transmogrified into nnpop (not by me, anyway
:).  Just dealing with the frequent (every 30 seconds of idle) server
timeouts is enough to discourage any sane programmer.

nnimap is, I hear, coming along.  It might even be ready by the end of the
Q-Gnus development cycle.

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