From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5455 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: TEMP fix for POP3 auth Date: 05 Mar 1996 06:27:35 -0500 Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Sender: gsstark@fierce-bad-rabbit.MIT.EDU Message-ID: References: <199603050649.BAA00623@illusion.apk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146057 395 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:34:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Gnus List Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA29336 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 04:16:52 -0800 Original-Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:27:47 +0100 Original-Received: from FIERCE-BAD-RABBIT.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA19535; Tue, 5 Mar 96 06:27:02 EST Original-Received: by fierce-bad-rabbit.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA01239; Tue, 5 Mar 96 06:27:39 -0500 Original-To: "d. hall" In-Reply-To: "d. hall"'s message of Tue, 5 Mar 1996 01:49:21 -0500 Original-Lines: 14 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.49/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5455 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5455 please don't make yet another program to access pop servers unless you're willing to support all the features of movemail. movemail supports pop, kerberos, and hesiod, unless you're going to support those features we're going to end up with two separate programs instead of simply merging new features into the existing mail interlock program. i have no reason to think movemail is flawless, if you wanted to reimplement it's features properly that would be better. but it works, and what you want to add is a relatively minor (though annoying) feature; if you reimplement everything else it's likely to break those features you never use. -- greg