Re: Using fetchmail with gnus (on Windows)

[Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu>]

Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> writes:

> Oh great.  So once I finally get everything working, I'll have to
> change it all when Oort becomes real?  ;^)

No, I don't think so.  You'll probably have to change a couple things,
but nothing serious. (I think! :)

Basically, the default should work in both cases (5.8.8, oort)

> I won't use daemon mode because I want my office mail left on the
> POP server when I'm out, so I can read it at home, and vice versa.
> In fact, it's this nasty business of wanting to leave mail on one
> server and not another that's started me looking at fetchmail in the
> first place.

Right, I see now.

> Agreed!  I would like the spool file to work as a mail source.

Right, and this should be one of those settings which just works.  I
wonder if there are some problems due to you using Windows?  Does
movemail work on windows?

copy your spool file to a temp file, and test movemail:

cp /var/spool/mail/pdavis /tmp/foo
movemail /tmp/foo /tmp/bar

check to see if /tmp/bar has the contents of your spool file.  Making
sure movemail works and is in your path would be a good thing to do, I
think.

Hope that helps,

-- 
Josh Huber