From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1684 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: po colon po: Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:14:41 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: <84fzskilla.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668384 12333 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:46:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:32 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p5087746e.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5087746e.dip.t-dialin.net (80.135.116.110) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1040933685 7237530 80.135.116.110 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bbCdfDlaRj8CgHe/LnAqPUq8rRw= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1824 Original-Lines: 35 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1824 Tue Jan 17 17:29:32 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1684 Archived-At: Don Saklad writes: > 1. > What does the letter p and the letter o represent mnemonically ?... po > in the expression > (setq nnmail-spool-file "po:your.pop.account") I think po are the first two letters of pop (or POP), which stands for Post Office Protocol. So maybe you can read them as Post Office? > 2. > Exactly what does the po colon element do in the expression?... Emacs invokes the program movemail to fetch mail into your home dir. Movemail interprets "po:" specially and knows that it has to do a POP fetch instead of copying a local file. > 3. > What does the letter q represet mnemonically?... > in the part of the expression > setq Quote. > 4. > What do the letters nn represent mnemonically?... > in the part of the expression > nnmail It's a pun, a joke. Network News, I think. -- Ambibibentists unite!