From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9984 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Pieri Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Hmm.. pop in gnus? Date: 25 Feb 1997 11:31:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149926 21685 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:38:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:38:46 +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 IAA28832 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 08:56:02 -0800 Original-Received: from londo.asds.com (londo.prescienttech.com [199.103.216.62]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:31:18 +0100 Original-Received: from gkar.asds.com (gkar.asds.com [111.17.19.1]) by londo.asds.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA18258 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:31:12 -0500 Original-Received: (from ratinox@localhost) by gkar.asds.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA00722; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:31:12 -0500 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Ben Gertzfield's message of 25 Feb 1997 09:06:37 -0600 Original-Lines: 40 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.15/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9984 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9984 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMxMTyJ6VRH7BJMxHAQHLKwQAm3/h1J2f3ijpYiIyX5sdJwvb+wsUb/mL i7ZM2nvBNWwHHUq01dD3dGZ2HnhcWjajKRYuLZrBiEVBk4DgLQBVsquXSZSblcRJ zjNmCF5bNhAW1Pp+MDs2ZNT05iaVBzHsNYdAQ0saCEo6hSwvFyfoIRpcmoNwmgct NOfmT7Qe2os= =bQHM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Rich Pieri | Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid Prescient Technologies, Inc. | core, which, if exposed due to A Stone & Webster Company | rupture, should not be touched, I speak for myself, not PTI or SWEC | inhaled, or looked at.