From: Xiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: reporting bug for gnus with pop3 function
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 19:39:59 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xp65f1s.fsf@laps.tsid.coa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877j4socfp.fsf@gmail.com>
Burton Samograd <kruhft@gmail.com> writes:
But I was not using an updated pop3 library before gnus was updated.
And eveything is OK before updating. It is strange.
> Xiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I am using debian testing / emacs-snapshot-unicode / gnus.
>>
>> When I updated my gnus with aptitude to version 5.11+v0.4.dfsg-1,
>> I found that it could not fetch mail from gmail by pop3.
>>
>> The related part of my dot.gnus file is as the following,
>>
>> (setq mail-sources
>> '((pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>> :port 995
>> :user "stid.smth"
>> :connection ssl
>> :leave t)))
>>
>> and when I typed "M-x gnus", gnus first prompt to input password
>> for my gmail account. I typed it correctly but gnus did not make
>> any reponse. After one minute or two, message was shown in the
>> mini buffer of my emacs. It said "mail source '((pop ...))..
>> error" or something like that. Inspite of this, reading news and
>> sending mail by stmp was not affected.
>>
>> If I switch back to gnus 5.10.6-1.NO.20051213-1, everything is
>> OK.
>>
>> Anyone else met with the same thing as me? Or is there anything
>> that I should notice with the new version of gnus?
>
> I'm not positive, but to get pop over SSL you need an enhanced pop3.el
> file for gnus, which I need for fetching my mail from gmail. Try
> looking at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusGmail; there's a
> link in the 3rd paragraph to a site that contains an updated pop3
> library with instructions on how to install it.
>
> Hope this helps.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-13 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-11 13:47 Xiaodong Xu
2006-05-11 14:36 ` Burton Samograd
2006-05-11 15:56 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-12 17:23 ` Burton Samograd
2006-05-13 10:01 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-13 11:39 ` Xiaodong Xu [this message]
2006-05-17 15:02 ` Xiaodong Xu
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