From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/967 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vasily Korytov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Gnusbie questions? Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 06:18:48 +0400 Organization: Thinking... 35% complete Message-ID: <87sn152e47.fsf@unix.home> References: <871y8puuzx.fsf@unix.home> <87y9ax2iz9.fsf@unix.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667818 9135 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:36:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:25 2006 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Attribution: VK User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management, i686-pc-linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IgAqwGw6NnNaYQNGyNX1Qt2HQHk= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h22.217.elnet.msk.ru Original-X-Trace: 24 Aug 2002 06:36:55 +0300, h22.217.elnet.msk.ru Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!news2.euro.net!image.surnet.ru!surnet.ru!news2.aha.ru!news.telekom.ru!unix.home!nobody Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1107 Original-Lines: 59 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1107 Tue Jan 17 17:28:25 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:967 Archived-At: >>>>> "RVM" == Richard V Molen writes: RVM> But how does mail-sources settings affect nnmail settings? RVM> (setq RVM> nnmail-spool-file "po:loginname" ;Login RVM> nnmail-pop-password-required t ;Password RVM> mail-host-address "pop3server.isp.com" ;Incoming mail RVM> ) I think, you don't need any of these anymore. Try to comment them all out. Probably, the quoted above variables make Gnus using movemail (a separate executable; that one was asking you a password =), not its native facilities for POP3 (I think, there's no reason of using the first one, except for, maybe, speed -- but on modern machines it doesn't matter), but I'm not sure. >> Maybe you should search the archives of this newsgroup for the answer, >> how to accompish it. RVM> I guess that's next, I've found some stuff at RVM> www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/big.html NTEmacs FAQ RVM> www.ccs.neu.edu/software/contrib/gnus/ gnus FAQ RVM> my.gnus.org/ for Gnus newbies RVM> Maybe 'google'ing or 'kibozing'? Yes. Google (the successor of dejanews) keeps a nice archive. So, you can search this group for ``keep mail on pop server'' or whatever. Usenet is a valuable source of information, so I consider its archives a very good thing. =)) RVM> Apparently, to keep stuff on the server I must setup to use RMAIL RVM> or VM? I don't use any of these, so I can't definitely say. I can definitely say, that in the Unix world (I think, that's still the main developement area of Emacs in general and Gnus and VM specifically; As for RMAIL -- I think, it's an older thingie) POP mail fetching is often considered to be a buisiness of a separate program, not mail reader's. Good examples of fetching programs are fetchmail (former popclient) and gwpop. First one runs under Windows, but only in environment called Cygwin -- kinda Un*x emulator; second one is written in Perl and IMHO it's worth looking at, but I've never used it, so I cannot tell much here. I don't say, it's the only way to fetch your mail from POP servers, but you can surely try this, if Gnus does not support leaving mail on servers (sorry again, I don't know it and quick search on docs gave nothing). -- With respect, Vasily Korytov PGP key fingerprint: A4FE 4665 A720 687F 4ECC 1474 7C16 C498 BAAB C999