Re: pop access

Andy> Not really like procmail but does allow me to selectively Andy> pull stuff from a pop server based on a regexp. I'll post Andy> the patches. I've just seen them. They should be very useful. Andy> I notice that gnus distributes pop3.el but doesn't appear to Andy> use it. I also notice that vm includes its own pop Andy> access. Is it worth trying to unify these different Andy> lisp-based access methods (and add my filtering) and squeeze Andy> some more speed in the process? Andy> What does vm-pop do that pop3 doesn't? Does anyone use Andy> pop3.el with gnus? Are there any other pop access packages? >> As far as I can remember from last time I looked, vm-pop has >> the following that are lacking in pop3.el: >> allows specifying of email size limits progress indicator >> cacheing of UID's to allow for deleting mail later Andy> So If I was to produce a unified pop should it take pop3 as Andy> the substrate or vm-pop? My vote goes to vm-pop. I believe the author of pop3 has stated that it should not be used as the basis for a real implementation of POP (Richard? correct me if I'm misrembering). Robert -- Robert Pluim Tel: +33 4 92 96 17 43 Systems Development Engineer Fax: +33 4 92 96 15 32 <URL: mailto:rpluim＠baynetworks.com> Bay Networks EMEA, 25 Allee Pierre Ziller, 06560 Valbonne, France