Andy Piper writes:
At 13:33 14/10/98 +0200, Adrian Aichner wrote:
>I use pop3.el of gnus-version "Gnus v5.6.44" with (emacs-version)
>"XEmacs 21.0 \"Pyrenean-pre4\" [Lucid] (i386-pc-win32) of Tue Oct 13
>1998 on TWILIGHT".
Thanks, so I guess the question is what does vm-pop do that pop3 doesn't as
I would like to suggest that pop3 gets moved to mail-lib at some stage.
I don't have time to compare them, but I can tell you that
vm-pop.el is integrated tightly with VM. It supports VM
variables
vm-pop-auto-expunge-alist
vm-pop-bytes-per-session
vm-pop-expunge-after-retrieving
vm-pop-max-message-size
vm-pop-messages-per-session
It knows when it is safe to query the user about passwords and
large messages and when it should just skip them. It reports
download status, e.g. message M (of N) (XXXXX of YYYYY) bytes.
It uses UIDL results to remember which messages it has downloaded
from the server. It supports APOP authentication in addition to
the usual USER-PASS method. It doesn't do content-based
filtering, but it will let you reject large messages without
downloading them.