From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12795 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Stark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Me and my nnextern.. Date: 07 Nov 1997 02:11:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152269 5732 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:17:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01270 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 00:10:20 -0800 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA12395 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 02:11:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id IAA01926 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:11:35 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (qmail 17791 invoked by uid 504); 7 Nov 1997 07:11:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17788 invoked from network); 7 Nov 1997 07:11:31 -0000 Original-Received: from portD27.Generation.NET (brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu@205.205.119.192) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 1997 07:11:31 -0000 Original-Received: by portD27.Generation.NET id m0xTiZf-000AtSC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Fri, 7 Nov 1997 02:11:23 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Andy Eskilsson's message of "06 Nov 1997 09:59:10 +0100" Original-Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.64/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12795 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12795 So what you want is not a new Gnus backend, but rather a new method for sending mail and receiving mail. The former is abstracted somewhat already, at my request though i have yet to actually get around to writing proper posting support for my backend. Look at message-send-method-alist. The latter is the subject of discussion on this list already. We need some way to specify a list of sources of mail which are separated from gnus somewhat. Already we have pop3.el, movemail, procmail spools, and native mail spool access. He needs a way to download his hotmail mail as well. Personally i'm a fan of fetchmail, it supports more protocols than Gnus is likely ever to and doesn't tie up my emacs (oh yeah, it's about that time again for me to start advocating for an asynchronous backend interface). So I don't have much of a personal stake in this line of development. But it does seem to be something that needs to be done. greg