Re: FAQ for gnu.emacs.gnus

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Dave Bennett <dbennett@micoks.net> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) writes:
>
>> I wonder what might be the problem...  Ah!  You're using Gnus 5.7, and
>> all the documentation on the web refers to 5.8 or higher, I guess.
>
> I didn't see anything that would indicate such a radical difference
> between 5.7 and 5.8 in the text of the documentation or FAQs.

Well, one difference between 5.7 and 5.8 is that the way to specify
how Gnus should fetch mail.

(setenv "MAILHOST" "your.pop.server")
(setq nnmail-spool-file "po:your.pop.account")

The above is for 5.7, I think.  I can't check and my memory is
faulty, so please don't beat me up if there is an error there.  Note
that the "po:" string is literal wereas your.pop.account and
your.pop.server are placeholders.

(setq mail-sources '((pop :server "your.pop.server"
                          :user "your.pop.account"
                          ;; May omit the password stanza.
                          :password "your.password")))

This ought to work with 5.8.

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