Re: Hmm.. pop in gnus?

[Ben Gertzfield <che@zarf-mouse.student.imsa.edu>]

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Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@PrescientTech.com> writes:

> 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.

*pout* Hmph. All I wanted was a way to transfer mail from a remote
server to my local machine, but in Lisp :)

> 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.

So I take it I should just keep my happy lambda shell-command in
there? :)

Oh, and I guess I should abandon all hope of Lisp-ifying my happy Perl
script that randomizes my signature.. let's see, was I supposed to
car or cdr there? Hmr..

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