Re: pop access

Hi Andy I use Gnus together with epop3 from Franklin Lee <flee(a)lehman.com&gt;, which in turn uses pop3 from Gnus. I like the UIDL feature because I want to leave my mail on the server after fetching. I use it on emacs-20.3.1. I would like to use it with Gnus on xemacs but the problem is, pop3.el uses password routines from ange-ftp. And xemacs uses efs instead of ange-ftp. It would be nice to have a pop3.el which works on both emacs versions. I don't know enough lisp to work on this. Maybe pop3.el could be extended to use either the ange-ftp stuff or the efs stuff depending on the emacs version. Here the relevant lines from the NT-EMACS FAQ page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html#mail-leave-rmail Franklin Lee <flee(a)lehman.COM&gt; has extended the pop3 package so that you can have your mail left on the server instead of always being downloaded (it also has a biff-mode with international "barks", which can be used whether or not you download or leave your mail on the server). You'll need to download a zip archive containing a patched pop3.el and some additional elisp files: ep3m-095.zip (9/28/98) http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs/contrib/ep3m-095.zip Here the comment from epop3.el: ;;; Commentary: ;; The code below implements commands not in pop3.el. Some of these ;; commands (UIDL, TOP) are optional POP3 commands introduced in RFC 1725. ;; The LIST command is implemented for the use of Mail User Agents which ;; may want to access the LIST command information. This is what I have in my .emacs: (setq gnus-select-method '(nnmbox "")) ; epop3 stuff (setq epop3-leave-mail-on-server t epop3-quietly nil epop3-authentication-always-use-default t epop3-mail-package 'gnus ;epop3 knows what to do epop3-biff-show-snooze t ) ; nnmail stuff (setq nnmail-movemail-program 'epop3-mail nnmail-spool-file "po:vzell＠mailm1") Ciao Volker -- ___________________________________________________________________________ "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse ..." Dr. Volker Zell __ / _ / __ / ___/ / ___/ -- Trainer -- / / /__/ /_ / / / __/ Oracle Germany ____/__/ _|__/ __/____/ ____/____/ Paul-Thomas-Str.58 D-40599 D|sseldorf e-Mail: mailto:vzell＠de.oracle.com WWW: http://trgsund4.de.oracle.com/ Tel: (+49) 211-74839-414 Fax: (+49) 211-74839-44 ___________________________________________________________________________ The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation.