Re: Gnus v5.2 and GNU Emacs 19.31 Win32

[Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu>]

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>>>>> "AI" == Andrew Innes <andrewi@harlequin.co.uk> writes:

AI> movemail only reads your inbox (only via POP3 on NT/Win95)

That would do it, then.  Gnus relies on movemail to safely copy the
inbox to a work file before deleting the inbox.  One workaround is to
use another program when trying to read from a local spool (the mv
program in the unix95 archive seems to work; the MS-DOS MOVE.EXE does
not).  If you are doing this on a "live" filesystem, one that an SMTP
daemon can write to, do not do this, you could loose mail.

However, I have now discovered another problem with the ntemacs
movemail: it converts the incoming mail file (from the POP3 server) to a
Babyl file, which is a big pain in the behind since Gnus is not geared
to parse a non-Unix (or MMDF) mail file.  Is this the normal behavior
for movemail?  Is there any way to disable it (I can't find anything in
the primary Emacs distribution sources that shows how)?  Or is there a
replacement for movemail that does not act so -- IMO -- brain-damaged?

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